みそじ

Japanese
Alternative spellings
三十
三十歳
三十路

Etymology

/misodi/ → /misozi/. Shift from earlier みそち (misochi),[1] which is from Old Japanese, a compound of 三十 (miso, “thirty”) +‎ ち (chi, a suffix derived from つ (tsu), an Old Japanese counter). The -chi changes to -ji as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

みそじ • (misoji) ←みそぢ (misodi)?

  1. (uncommon) thirty
  2. (uncommon) thirty years of age
  • 十路(そじ) (soji)
  • 二十歳(はたち) (hatachi)
  • 四十路(よそじ) (yosoji)
  • 五十路(いそじ) (isoji)
  • 六十路(むそじ) (musoji)
  • 七十路(ななそじ) (nanasoji)
  • 八十路(やそじ) (yasoji)
  • 九十路(ここのそじ) (kokonosoji)

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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