🌏 Region(s): Honshu (Standard)
いね【稲】 : ine | define meaning
ine
Pronunciation: [ine]
Definition
Noun
- (Plant) Rice plant; rice
Etymology
Cognate with Amami (Koniya) いねィー inïï; Okinawan っんに qnni; Yaeyama (Miyara) いに ini; and standard Japanese いね【稲】 ine "rice plant" as well as its variants いな ina- and しね -shine, both of which are only found in limited compounds.
Related to (or, according to some authors, cognate with) Okinawan and Miyako (Uruka) ゆに yuni; and standard Japanese よね【米】 yone "husked rice, hulled rice".
Reconstructions:
- Benedict (1990) reconstructs proto-Japanese *jinai > Old Japanese yone > Middle Japanese ine, -shine. Benedict also compares the ending to ne "root".
- Alexandre Vovin (1994) reconstructs *(z)ina-Ci for proto-Japonic.
- Alexander Francis-Ratte (2016) proposes that the Old Japanese form jone is from *jə "rice plant" + *ne "root", with the form ine being a secondary development.
- Alexander Francis-Ratte (2017) reconstructs proto-Japonic *jə-naj "rice plant" > Old Japanese jone/ine.
Notes
The form いな ina is commonly found as the first component in compounds. Examples include: いなむし【蝗】 inamushi "rice pest", いなさく【稲作】 inasaku "rice cultivation", いなご【稲子】 inago "rice grasshopper, locust", いなだ【稲田】 inada "rice field, rice paddy", etc.
意味：いね【稲・稻】