みちばた

Japanese

Etymology 1

Alternative spellings
道端
道ばた

From 道(みち) (michi) + 端(はた) (hata). The hata changes to bata as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) みちばた [mìchíbátá] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [mʲit͡ɕiba̠ta̠]

Noun

みちばた • (michibata) ←みちばた (mitibata)?

  1. roadside

Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of みちばた – see the following entry.
【道端】
[proper noun] a surname
(This term, みちばた, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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