かばね

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Japanese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Japanese.[2][1]

Ultimate derivation unclear. Some theories derive this clan sense as a Japanese compound of (kabu, stock, root) + (ne, root, origin) or (na, name). However, the required /u//a/ sound shift would be unusual.

Another thought is that this might be a borrowing from, or somehow otherwise related to, Korean 골품 (golpum), a Sino-Korean term also spelled 骨品 (literally bones + goods), the name for a kind of kinship hierarchy that was prevalent in the Silla kingdom. This latter theory and its related bone sense might also account for the homophony with , (kabane, corpse, dead body).

Noun

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かばね (kabane

  1. : clan
    Synonym: (uji)
  2. (historical) a kind of hereditary title bestowed to clans in ancient Japan
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Etymology 2

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From Old Japanese. Appears in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.[3]

Probably cognate with kabane (“clan”) above.

Noun

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かばね (kabane

  1. , : corpse, dead body
    Synonyms: , (shikabane), 死骸 (shigai)
  2. , : (after full decomposition) a skeleton, bones
    Synonym: (skeleton) 骸骨 (gaikotsu)
  3. : short for 尸冠 (shikabane kanmuri), the radical
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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. ^
    c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 18, poem 4094:
    , text here

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