神戸

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See also: 神戶, and 神户

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
こう
Grade: 3
へ > べ
Grade: 2
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
神戶 (kyūjitai)
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Etymology

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⟨kamu pe1⟨kamube1 → */kamubʲe//kaũbe//kɔːbe//koːbe/

Originally a compound of (kamu, Old Japanese combining form of kami, “(Shinto) god, deity) +‎ (he, house); itself referring to 生田神社 (Ikuta Jinja, Ikuta Shrine) as attested in the Nihon Shoki (720 CE).[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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(こう)() (Kōbeかうべ (Kaube)?

  1. Kobe (the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan)
    昨日(きのう)(こう)()から(とう)(きょう)()()しました。
    Kinō, Kōbe kara Tōkyō ni hikkoshimashita.
    I moved from Kobe to Tokyo yesterday.

Descendants

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  • English: Kobe

References

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  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Old Japanese

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Etymology

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Compound of (kamu, combining form of kami2, “(Shinto) god, deity) +‎ (pe1, house). The pe1 changes to be1 as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Noun

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神戸 (kamube1) (kana かむべ)

  1. under the 律令 (Ritsuryō) system, a shrine in the 封戸 (fuko) household of taxation
    • 720, Nihon Shoki, Emperor Sujin, seventh year of reign [c. 90 BCE], thirteenth day of the eleventh month:
      然後卜祭他社、吉焉。便別祭八十萬群神。仍定天社國社、及神地神戸
      Then after was the divination and veneration to the other gods, thereupon [it was] good. Then the other eighty and ten thousand gods were venerated separately. A shrine was dedicated to the ama tsu yashiro [heavenly deities], kuni tsu yashiro [national deities], as well as the godly places and the shrine households.

Descendants

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  • Japanese: 神戸 (kanbe, Kōbe)