Omoinohokaใใ, in your latest post, you mentioned using etymology sites. I was wondering if you would have the time to share them, or maybe your favorite one? In any case, thank you for always creating such interesting posts!! I hope you're having a nice, peaceful evening. Take good care of yourself! :)
namidagawaใใใthanks for your lovely ask! ๐
I use a ton of different resources to make the Word of the Day posts. Hereโs the ones that I use the most.
First, I go to good old Google and type in the word and ่ชๆบ gogen (etymology). I also do the same thing with the word and ็ฑๆฅ yurai (source). Then I comb through all the different results and find the most credible ones.
1. ่ชๆบ็ฑๆฅ่พๅ
ธ gogen-allguide.com
This site doesnโt have all words, but it is my first go-to. Hereโs where I learned about ๆๅ
ซๅ murahachibu (ostracism). It gives you the definition and then the etymology and is very highly reputed.
2. ๆผขๅญใปๆผขๅใป่ชๆบ่พๅ
ธ okjiten.jp
This site explains how each kanji means, how it came to be, and the etymology behind its very first iteration. Hereโs what it had to say about ่, one of the recent words of the day.
I know that the English Yahoo Questions are kinda famous for being meme and joke fodder, but the Japanese take Yahoo Questions very seriously. While I donโt like relying on it for answers, sometimes I find that Japanese people have asked the same questions about words Iโm looking up. If the best answer includes sources, I will use it as an explanation.
4.ย ๆใ็ซใกใง็ฅใๆผขๅญใฎใใใใไธ็: ไบบไฝ็ทจ The World Becomes More Interesting by Knowing Kanji Etymology: Human Radical Collection
This is a book I found very recently online. It has a lot of explanations about kanji and their etymology. This is where I found ่ใโs etymology the other day.
Itโs not very common for there to be an entire page about a word, but sometimes there are! When I was looking up the etymology of ๅใ nageku (to wail, lament) I read up about ๆฑ้ญ Kanbatsu (drought or the God of Drought) on Wiki.
6. ่ๅญ็ฑๆฅnetย https://myoji-yurai.net/
Sometimes I do collections of unusual Japanese surnames, and this is where I get all of that information from. Itโs a super cool site! I use this to look up peopleโs names when I canโt read them or I want to know more about them as well.
It gives you their name, how common it is in Japan, about how many people have it, how itโs read, and, sometimes, the etymology of the surname.
Where would any learner of Japanese be without jisho? God praise the people that made that site. This is where I get each word and kanjiโs on-yomi, kun-yomi, and meaning in English. I also use their example sentences if they have them.
8. ็จไพ.jpย http://yourei.jp/ย and ใตใใใชๆๅบซย https://furigana.info/
Sometimes the words I have are so low-frequency that jisho doesnโt have an example sentence, so I turn to other examples on Japanese sites like yourei.jp or furiganabunko, which both have examples of words pulled from various published works like books and newspapers. Some of the examples they use are very old, like from before WWII, and are hard to understand, so I have to hunt for ones that I think will be easier to understand for everyone.
Other than that, sometimes I happen to come across entire articles aboutย โDid you know the true meaning of x kanji?!โ that are super helpful haha.ย
Now you guys know all of my secrets and can look up the etymologies all on your own! XD
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