遡る

Japanese

Kanji in this term
遡
さかのぼ(る)
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology

Likely from Old Japanese, compound of 逆 (さか) (saka, “reverse”) + 上 (のぼ)る (noboru, “ascend, go up”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Alternative forms

  • 溯る, 泝る, 逆上る

Pronunciation

Verb

遡る (intransitive, godan conjugation, hiragana さかのぼる, rōmaji sakanoboru)

  1. go back, extend back (in time), stretch back
    根 (こん)源 (げん)に遡 (さかのぼ)って考 (かんが)える
    kongen ni sakanobotte kangaeru
    (please add an English translation of this example)
  2. advance against the flow of water; go upstream (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
    c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 20, poem 4461), text here
    保 (ほ)里 (り)江 (え)欲 (よ)利 (り)美 (み)乎 (を)左 (さ)香 (か)能 (の)保 (ぼ)流 (る)梶 (かぢの)音 (おと)乃 (の)麻 (ま)奈 (な)久 (く)曽 (ぞ)奈 (な)良 (ら)波 (は)古 (こ)非 (ひ)之 (し)可 (か)利 (り)家 (け)留 (る) [Man'yōgana]
    堀 (ほり)江 (え)より水 (み)脈 (を)さかのぼる楫 (かぢ)の音 (おと)の間 (ま)なくぞ奈 (な)良 (ら)は恋 (こひ)しかりける [Modern spelling]
    horie yori mio sakanoboru kaji no oto no manaku zo Nara wa koishikarikeru
    Like the oars' noise going up the current from the [Naniwa] channel, so without interval I have come to long for the capital of Nara![2]

Conjugation

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ Jan Lodewijk Pierson, Jr. (1963) The Manyôśû Translated and Annotated, Book XX, Brill Archive, page 166
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