"らく" meaning in All languages combined

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SOFT REDIRECT [Japanese]

  1. Tags: no-gloss
    Sense id: en-らく-ja-soft-redirect-47DEQpj8

Suffix [Japanese]

Forms: -raku [romanization]
Etymology: From the く (ku) nominalization suffix, as the form required for 二段活用 (nidan katsuyō, “bigrade-conjugation”) verbs. * In the traditional analysis, for 四段活用 (yodan katsuyō, “quadrigrade-conjugation”) verbs, the -ku nominalization suffix attaches to the 未然形 (mizenkei, “irrealis form”) of the verb stem, ending in -a. * Meanwhile, for bigrade verbs, the く (ku) noun-forming suffix manifests instead as らく (raku) and attaches to the 終止形 (shūshikei, “terminal or predicative form”) of the verb, the standard "plain" or "dictionary form" ending in -u. The irregularities in the verb form required for -ku nominalization, and the shifts between bare -ku and longer form -raku, can be resolved if the underlying form of the nominalizing suffix were -aku instead, syntactically acting as a noun, and thus requiring that the verb be in the 連体形 (rentaikei, “adnominal form”). Also, Old Japanese did not allow hiatus (consecutive vowels without an intervening consonant), forcing either vowel fusion or vowel elision. For bigrade verbs, the end of the adnominal form would be -ru + suffix -aku, with the final -u in the verb-ending -ru eliding to give us attested raku. Etymology templates: {{ja-r|く}} く (ku), {{ja-r|く}} く (ku), {{ja-r|らく}} らく (raku) Head templates: {{ja-pos|suffix}} らく • (-raku)
  1. synonym of く (“nominalization suffix”) Tags: morpheme Synonyms: [synonym, synonym-of]
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Alternative forms

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