緒ろ

Japanese
Kanji in this term
緒
お
Grade: S
Alternative spelling
緖ろ (kyūjitai)

Etymology

/woro2/ → /worə/ → /woro/ → /oro/. From noun 緒 (o, “thread”) + suffix ろ (ro).

Noun

緒(お)ろ • (oro) ←をろ (woro)?

  1. a thin, long thread
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 14, poem 3466:
      麻可奈思美 奴礼婆許登尓豆 佐祢奈敝波 己許呂乃緒呂尓 能里弖可奈思母
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See also

References
  • Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 3: Man’yōshū 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 2002, →ISBN.
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