ワイシャツ

Japanese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Clipping of ホワイトシャツ (howaito shatsu), borrowed from English white shirt,[1][2][3][4][5][6] from the typical white color of dress shirts.

The meaning in Japanese evolved over time to extend first to any dress shirt, regardless of color, and then to any long-sleeved button-down shirt in general.

First cited to 1912.[1] Natsume Sōseki uses the term in his 1915 book 道草 (Michikusa, “Grass on the Wayside”) with the spelling 白襯衣 (literally “white + shirt”), using furigana to indicate a pronunciation of ワイシャツ (waishatsu).[7]

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) ワイシャツ [wàíshátsú] (Heiban – [0])[4][5][6]
  • IPA(key): [ɰᵝa̠iɕa̠t͡sɨᵝ]

Noun

ワイシャツ • (waishatsu) 

  1. [from 1912] a dress shirt
  2. [from some time after 1912] a long-sleeved button-down shirt

See also

References
  1. “ワイシャツ”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, →ISBN
  2. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. 1998, 広辞苑 (Kōjien), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  4. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  6. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  7. 1915, Natsume Sōseki, 道草 (Michikusa, “Grass on the Wayside”), text available online via Aozora Bunko here (in Japanese); see the second-to-last paragraph of that section for the term
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.