いね

Japanese
Alternative spelling
稲

Alternative forms
  • (non-productive, bound form)

Etymology

⟨i1nai⟩ → */jinai/ → */jine/ → /ine/

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.[1]

Possibly from Proto-Japonic *jinaC-[2] and related to 米 (yone, “husked rice”).

Unknown "-C-" consonantal segment, reconstructed by Vovin (1998), seems unlikely considering [a ~ e] vowel alternation:

Compare 藍 (awi → ai, “indigo”) from 青 (awo, “blue”) + い (i, emphatic nominative particle)[3] against 白き (⟨siro1ki1⟩ → shiroki) → 白い (shiroi, “white”). [4].

Pronunciation

Noun

いね or イネ • (ine) ←いね (ine)?

  1. the Asian rice plant, Oryza sativa
    • c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 14, poem 3459), text here
      伊祢(いね)都氣波(つけば)可加流安我手乎(かかるあがてを)許余比毛可(こよひもか)等能乃和久胡我(とののわくごが)等里弖奈氣可武(とりてなげかむ) [Man'yōgana]
      稲(いね)舂(つ)けばかかる我(あ)が手(て)を今宵(こよひ)もか殿(との)の若子(わくご)が取(と)りて嘆(なげ)かむ [Modern spelling]
      ine tsukeba kakaru aga te o koyoi mo ka tono no wakugo ga torite nagekamu
      As my hands are chapped from polishing rice, I wonder if the master’s son will take them and lament again tonight
  2. a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) with various designs of rice plants

Usage notes
  • As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary).

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • 稲(いね)揚(あ)げ (ineage)
  • 稲(いね)刈(かり), 稲(いね)刈(か)り (inekari)
  • 稲(いね)扱(こ)き (inekoki)
  • 稲(いね)舂(つ)き (inetsuki)
  • 稲(いね)の丸(まる) (ine no maru)
  • 稲(いね)埒(らち) (inerachi)
  • 抱(だき)稲(いね), 抱(だ)き稲(いね) (dakiine)
  • 稲(いね)分(わ)け (inewake)
  • 徒(いたずら)稲(いね) (itazura ine)
  • 晩稲(おしね) (oshine)
  • 刈(か)り稲(いね) (kariine)
  • 賤(しず)稲(いね) (shizuine)
  • 長彦(ながひこ)の稲(いね) (nagahiko no ine)
  • 野(の)稲(いね) (noine)
  • 法師子(ほうしご)の稲(いね) (hōshigo no ine)
  • 糯(もち)稲(いね) (mochiine)
  • 行(ゆき)合(あ)いの稲(いね), 行(ゆ)き合(あ)いの稲(いね) (yukiai no ine)

Idioms
  • 稲(いね)挙(あ)ぐ (ineagu), 稲(いね)挙(あ)ぐる (ineaguru)
  • 稲(いね)積(つ)む (inetsumu)

See also

Proper noun

いね • (Ine) ←いね (ine)?

  1. (dated) a female given name
  2. a surname

References
  1. “稲”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, →ISBN
  2. Whitman, John (2012). "Northeast Asian Linguistic Ecology and the Advent of Rice Agriculture in Korea and Japan, Rice, Volume 4, Issue 3–4, pp 149–158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12284-011-9080-0
  3. Thomas Pellard (2013). Ryukyuan perspectives on the proto-Japonic vowel system. Frellesvig, Bjarke; Sells, Peter. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 20, CSLI Publications, pp.81–96, 2013.
  4. Hamano, S. "Voicing of Obstruents in Old Japanese: Evidence from the Sound-Symbolic Stratum." Journal of East Asian Linguistics (2000) 9. 3: 207-225. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008367619295
  5. 1974, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Second Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō
  6. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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