藻玉

Japanese

Kanji in this term
藻 玉
も
Grade: S		 たま > だま
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 藻 (mo, “alga”) +‎ 玉 (tama, “ball”), from the way that the seeds often wash ashore.[1] The tama changes to dama as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

藻玉 (hiragana もだま, katakana モダマ, rōmaji modama)

  1. St. Thomas bean

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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