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🌏 Region(s): Ryukyu (Okinawa)

いまいゆ

ima iyu

Pronunciation: [ʔimaʔiju]

Definition

Noun

  1. Freshly harvested fish; freshly caught fish; fresh fish

Etymology

Several sources speculate the term originates from a compound of the Japanese word いま【今】 ima "now" and the Okinawan word いゆ【魚】 iyu "fish". However, いま ima may be the result of conflating なま【生】 nama "raw, fresh" with いま【今】 ima "now" (which itself became なま nama in Okinawan) or may be the result of transposing the *i- from いゆ iyu onto the first syllable.

Compare Kagoshima なまいお namaio and なまいを namaiwo; Tarama and Miyako (Nishihara) なまズず namaɿzu; Yaeyama (Hatoma, Miyara) なまいづ namaidzu; and Middle Japanese なまうお【生魚】 nama uo (なまうを nama uwo) "fresh fish".

Notes

By opposition, さがいいゆ【下がい魚】 sagaiiyu refers to fish that are no longer fresh.

意味:とれたてさかな【取れたて魚】、しんせんなさかな【新鮮な魚】、せんぎょ【鮮魚】

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