寄る

Japanese

Kanji in this term
Grade: 5

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Altaic *dōre (to go, walk, approach) (compare Turkish yürü (walk)).[1]

Verb

寄る (intransitive, godan conjugation, hiragana よる, rōmaji yoru)

  1. come near, come up
  2. step aside
  3. gather
  4. drop by, call on someone
  5. advance in years
  6. (sumo) push out while grabbing the belt

Conjugation

References

  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), *dōre”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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