こいがたき

See also: 戀敵 and 恋敌

Japanese

Alternative spelling
恋敵

Etymology

From 恋(こい) (koi, “love”) + 敵(かたき) (kataki, “enemy”). The kataki changes to gataki as an instance of rendaku (連(れん)濁(だく)).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) こいがたき [kòígáꜜtàkì] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ko̞iɡa̠ta̠kʲi]

Noun

こいがたき • (koigataki) ←こひがたき (kofigataki)?

  1. rival in love

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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