弥生

/ijaopi/ → /ijaofi/ → */jaofi/ → /jajofi/ → /jajowi/ → /jajoi/

Shift from iyaoi below.[1]

• (Tokyo) やよい [yàyóí] (Heiban – [0])[2][3]
• IPA^(key): [ja̠jo̞i]

弥(や)生(よい) • (yayoi) ^{←やよひ (yayofi)?}

1. (archaic) the third month of the lunar calendar
2. (poetic) the month of spring; March

• 弥(や)生(よい)狂(きょう)言(げん) (yayoi kyōgen)
• 弥(や)生(よい)尽(じん) (yayoijin)
• 弥(や)生(よい)山(やま) (yayoi yama)

弥(や)生(よい) • (Yayoi) ^{←やよひ (yayofi)?}

1. a Kamikaze-class destroyer in the Imperial Japanese Navy

   Hypernym: 神風 (Kamikaze)

2. a Mutsuki-class destroyer in the Imperial Japanese Navy, see Japanese destroyer Yayoi (1925) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

   Hypernym: 睦月 (Mutsuki)

3. a placename, especially the name of a district in Bunkyō Ward, Tokyo
4. a female given name
   • 1997 October 17, Amagi, Seimaru; Kanari, Yozaburo; Sato, Fumiya, “ファイル18　魔(ま)神(じん)遺(い)跡(せき)殺(さつ)人(じん)事(じ)件(けん)⑪ [File 18: The Demonic Ruins Murder Case ⑪]”, in 金(きん)田(だ)一(いち)少(しょう)年(ねん)の事(じ)件(けん)簿(ぼ) [Young Kindaichi Case Files], volume 26 (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 105:

     三(さん)月(がつ)に生(う)まれた私(わたし)が「弥(や)生(よい)」だから　五(ご)月(がつ)に生(う)まれたあなたは「さつき」にしようって———

     Sangatsu ni umareta watashi ga “Yayoi” da kara Gogatsu ni umareta anata wa “Satsuki” ni shiyōtte———

     I’m “Yayoi” because I was born in March. We named you “Satsuki” because you were born in May———

5. a surname

• 弥(や)生(よい)時(じ)代(だい) (Yayoi jidai)
• 弥(や)生(よい)土(ど)器(き) (Yayoi doki), 弥(や)生(よい)式(しき)土(ど)器(き) (Yayoi-shiki doki)
• 弥(や)生(よい)文(ぶん)化(か) (Yayoi bunka)

Possibly from Old Japanese.

Derived from adverb 弥 (iya, “very”) +‎ 生い (oi, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, stem or continuative form) of classical verb 生う (ou), “to grow”).

弥(いや)生(おい) • (iyaoi) ^{←いやおひ (yaofi)?}

1. (of vegetation) thick growth
2. (obsolete) the third month of the lunar calendar

• 弥(いや)生(おい)の月(つき) (iyaoi no tsuki)

• (Japanese calendar months) 睦(む)月(つき) (mutsuki), 如月(きさらぎ) (kisaragi), 弥(や)生(よい) (yayoi), 卯(う)月(づき) (uzuki), 皐(さ)月(つき) (satsuki), 水(み)無(な)月(づき) (minazuki), 文(ふみ)月(づき) (fumizuki), 葉(は)月(づき) (hazuki), 長(なが)月(つき) (nagatsuki), 神(かん)無(な)月(づき) (kannazuki), 霜(しも)月(つき) (shimotsuki), 師(し)走(わす) (shiwasu) ^{(Category: ja:Japanese calendar months)}