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うぬ【己ぬ】

unu

Pronunciation: [unu]

Definition

Adnominal Demonstrative

  1. Medial adnominal demonstrative used to indicate or recall something or someone distant to the speaker, but near or familiar to the listener: "That ~ "
    1. うぬきー【うぬ木】
      unu kii
      "That tree right there"
    2. うぬてぃ【うぬ手】
      unuti
      (lit.) "That hand" (fig.) "That way", "In that manner", "that kind (of)", "that type"
    3. うぬまま【うぬ儘】
      unumama
      "As it is", "The way it is", "Like that"

Etymology

Cognate to Okinawan うぬ unu; Yuwan Amami うん un; and Hachijō うの uno "that". Related to the defective standard Japanese root おの【己】ono-, roughly meaning "oneself", "I", or "you", as in the pronouns おのれ【己】 onore and おのが【己が】onoga among others.

意味:その【其の】、それ【其れ】

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