やけざけ

Japanese

Alternative spellings
自棄酒
焼け酒
やけ酒
ヤケ酒

Etymology

From 自棄(やけ) (yake) + (さけ) (sake). The sake changes to zake as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

やけざけ (yakezake) やけざけ (yakezake)?

  1. alcohol to drink away one's sorrows

References

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