懇ろ

Japanese

Kanji in this term
懇
ねんご
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
懇

Etymology 1

⟨ne moko2ro2⟩ → */nemʷəkərə/ → /neɱɡoro/ → /neŋɡoro/

Shift from Old Japanese nemokoro (see below).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ねんごろ [nèńgóró] (Heiban – [0])[2][3]
  • IPA(key): [nẽ̞ŋɡo̞ɾo̞]

Adjective

懇(ねんご)ろ • (nengoro) -na (adnominal 懇(ねんご)ろな (nengoro na), adverbial 懇(ねんご)ろに (nengoro ni))

  1. courteous, hospitable, kind, warmly respectful
  2. intimate
Inflection

Noun

懇(ねんご)ろ • (nengoro) 

  1. becoming intimate, having an intimate relationship
Derived terms

Verb

懇(ねんご)ろする • (nengoro suru) suru (stem 懇(ねんご)ろし (nengoro shi), past 懇(ねんご)ろした (nengoro shita))

  1. to become intimate
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
懇
ねもこ
Grade: S
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese.

Possibly a compound of 根 (ne, “root, source”) + adverbial particle 如, 若 (mokoro, “like, same”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Adverb

懇(ねもこ)ろ • (nemokoro) 

  1. (archaic) wholeheartedly
    Synonym: 心をこめて (kokoro o komete)
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 9, poem 1723:
      , text here
      河蝦(かはづ)鳴(なく)六(むつ)田乃(たの)河(かは)之(の)川楊(かはやぎ)乃(の)根毛居侶(ねもころ)雖見(みれど)不飽(あかぬ)河鴨(かはかも) [Man'yōgana]
      かはづ鳴(な)く六(むつ)田(た)の川(かは)の川柳(かはやぎ)のねもころ見(み)れど飽(あ)かぬ川(かは)かも [Modern spelling]
      kawazu naku Mutsuta-no-kawa no kawayagi no nemokoro miredo akanu kawa ka mo
      No matter how heartily I look at the heart of the willows by the river along the Mutsuta River where frogs cry, I never get tired of that river.[4]
Derived terms
  • 懇(ねもこ)ろごろに (nemokorogoro ni)

Adjective

懇(ねもこ)ろ • (nemokoro) †-nari

  1. (archaic) courteous, hospitable, kind
  2. (archaic) intimate
Conjugation

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  4. Norinaga Motoori (2007) Michael F. Marra, editor, The Poetics of Motoori Norinaga: A Hermeneutical Journey, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 222
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