岩屋

Japanese
Kanji in this term
岩 屋
いわ
Grade: 2		 や
Grade: 3
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
石屋
窟

Etymology

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *Epaya. Cognate with Yaeyama 岩屋 (īzā), Yonaguni 岩屋 (daya).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) いわや [ìwáyá] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [iɰᵝa̠ja̠]

Noun

岩(いわ)屋(や) • (iwaya) ←いはや (ifaya)?

  1. a cave
  2. a cavern

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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