noun:

• stem (word) - Linguistics term

noun:

• onomatope (i.e. word formed by onomatopoeia) - Linguistics term ➜ 擬音語

noun:

• derivative (word) - Linguistics term

noun:

• great and splendid land (Yamato word); excellent location; splendid place

noun:

• two ways (e.g. of interpreting a word); two kinds; two types

noun:

• Greek (language, word)

noun:

• emphasis (e.g. placed on a word); stress; tone (of voice)

noun:

• earned media (media exposure gained through word-of-mouth) ➜ ペイドメディア・オウンドメディア

noun:

• reading (of a word) that has become accepted through popular usage

noun / ~の noun:

• eponym (word derived from the name of a place or person)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to speak with an accent; to be corrupted (of word); to mispronounce

noun:

• the public; the street (e.g. "word on the street")
• street; district; quarters
• location (e.g. of a battle); scene (e.g. of carnage)
• divide (e.g. between life and death)
• fork (in a road); crossroads - orig. meaning

noun:

• language; dialect ➜ 言語
• word; words; phrase; term; expression; remark ➜ 単語
• speech; (manner of) speaking
• learning to speak; language acquisition

noun:

• imperial capital (esp. Kyoto) ［きょう］
• final word of an iroha-uta ［きょう］ ➜ 伊呂波歌

numeric:

• 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000; ten quadrillion - usu. けい

noun / ~する noun:

• transliteration ➜ 音写
• phonetic representation of a foreign word using Chinese characters
• reading aloud (for people with impaired vision)

noun:

• season
• seasonal word or phrase (in haiku)
• year ➜ 一季・半季

noun / ~する noun:

• oral instruction ➜ 口伝え・口伝【くでん】
• passing information by word-of-mouth ➜ 口伝え

noun:

• oral tradition ➜ 口伝え

noun / ~する noun:

• oral instruction
• passing information by word-of-mouth

noun:

• oral tradition

noun / ~する noun:

• oral instruction
• passing information by word-of-mouth

noun:

• oral tradition

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to insert
• to interrupt; to slip in a word
• to harbor (e.g. doubts); to harbour; to entertain (e.g. a theory)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be packed (with); to be full (space, schedule, etc.)
• to be blocked (road, pipe, etc.); to be clogged; to be plugged up ➜ 鼻が詰まる
• to shorten (width, interval, etc.); to shrink (shirt, word form, etc.); to narrow
• to be at a loss; to be hard pressed - often in the form …につまる ➜ 言葉に詰まる・気の詰まる【きのつまる】
• to end up; to be settled ➜ 詰まる所【つまるところ】
• to become a geminate consonant ➜ 促音【そくおん】
• to hit the ball near the handle of the bat - Baseball term

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to change; to alter
• to run counter to; to go against; to break (one's word)
• to make a mistake (in); to err

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to wave; to shake; to swing
• to sprinkle; to throw (dice)
• to cast (actor); to allocate (work)
• to turn down (somebody); to reject; to jilt; to dump
• to abandon; to give up; to ruin
• to add kana indicating a reading of a word ➜ 振り仮名
• to slightly change headings; to change directions
• to extract by broiling; to prepare an infusion of; to decoct
• to carry with great vigor (e.g. a portable shrine)
• to bring up a topic; to lead to a topic
• to replace; to substitute
• to set up a joke for somebody else

noun:

• master (of a house, shop, etc.)
• husband (informal)
• sir; boss; master; governor; word used to address a male patron, customer, or person of high status
• patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess; sugar daddy ➜ パトロン
• alms; almsgiving; almsgiver - orig. meaning; usu. written as 檀那 - Buddhism term - From Sanskrit "dāna" ➜ 檀越・檀家

noun:

• thing; matter
• incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis
• circumstances; situation; state of affairs
• work; business; affair
• after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to

suffix noun:

• nominalizing suffix ➜ 事【ごと】
• pretending to ...; playing make-believe ... ➜ 事【ごと】

noun / suffix noun:

• alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as - esp. as ＡことＢ or ＡとはＢのことだ (Ａ alias, Ｂ formal)