"昨日" meaning in Japanese

See 昨日 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [kʲino̞ː] Forms: 昨日 [canonical] (ruby: 昨日(きのう)), kinō [romanization], kinofu [romanization], きのふ [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: /ki no pu/ → /kinoɸu/ → */kinowu/ → /kinou/ → /kinoː/ From Old Japanese, ultimately from Proto-Japonic *kinəpu. The initial ki is unclear, but is likely the same ki element that appears in other words pertaining to the past. This may be related to the now-obsolete auxiliary verb き (ki) indicating the recollective past -- see けり (keri). The middle no appears to be the regular genitive particle の (no). The final pu is an apophonic form of 日 (hi, “day”), also found in 今日 (kepu→kyō, “today”). Martin suggests that the initial ki might also be related to Old Japanese 來 (ku, “to come”), modern 来る (kuru), presumably via the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of ki. However, this is problematic both semantically, as "the coming day" would presumably refer to tomorrow rather than yesterday; and grammatically, as a verb modifying a noun would be expected to conjugate into the regular attributive form (for 來 (ku) that would be kuru), rather than into the continuative form that then necessitates a particle. The kanji are orthographic borrowing from Chinese 昨日 (zuórì). Etymology templates: {{inh|ja|ojp|-|sort=きのう}} Old Japanese, {{inh|ja|jpx-pro|*kinəpu|sort=きのう}} Proto-Japonic *kinəpu, {{ja-r|き}} き (ki), {{ja-r|けり}} けり (keri), {{ja-r|の}} の (no), {{m|ja|日||day|tr=hi}} 日 (hi, “day”), {{m|ja|今日|t=today|tr=kepu→kyō}} 今日 (kepu→kyō, “today”), {{cog|ojp|來|t=to come|tr=ku}} Old Japanese 來 (ku, “to come”), {{m|ja|来る|tr=kuru}} 来る (kuru), {{m|ja|連用形||continuative or stem form|tr=ren'yōkei}} 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”), {{m|en|tomorrow}} tomorrow, {{m|en|yesterday}} yesterday, {{m|ojp|來|tr=ku}} 來 (ku), {{obor|ja|zh|昨日|nocap=1|sort=きのう}} orthographic borrowing from Chinese 昨日 (zuórì) Head templates: {{ja-noun|きのう|hhira=きのふ}} 昨日(きのう) • (kinō) ^(←きのふ (kinofu)?)
  1. yesterday
    Sense id: en-昨日-ja-noun-lSPZ--eb Categories (other): Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: [sa̠kɯ̟ᵝʑit͡sɨᵝ] Forms: 昨日 [canonical] (ruby: (さく), (じつ)), sakujitsu [romanization]
Etymology: From Middle Chinese compound 昨日 (dzak nyit, literally “yesterday + day”). Compare modern Cantonese reading zok⁶ jat⁶. Etymology templates: {{der|ja|ltc|-|sort=きのう}} Middle Chinese, {{m|zh|昨日|lit=yesterday + day|tr=dzak nyit}} 昨日 (dzak nyit, literally “yesterday + day”), {{cog|yue|-}} Cantonese Head templates: {{ja-noun|さくじつ}} 昨(さく)日(じつ) • (sakujitsu)
  1. yesterday
    Sense id: en-昨日-ja-noun-lSPZ--eb1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: [kʲiso̞] Forms: 昨日 [canonical] (ruby: 昨日(きそ)), kiso [romanization]
Etymology: From Old Japanese. The initial ki is unclear, but is likely the same ki element that appears in other words pertaining to the past. This may be related to the now-obsolete auxiliary verb き (ki) indicating the recollective past -- see けり (keri). The final so is also unclear, but is probably the same as the final zo in 去年(こぞ) (kozo). This may have been read as kizo in Old Japanese. Etymology templates: {{der|ja|ojp|-|sort=きそ}} Old Japanese, {{ja-r|き}} き (ki), {{ja-r|けり}} けり (keri), {{ja-r|去年|こぞ}} 去年(こぞ) (kozo), {{cog|ojp|-}} Old Japanese Head templates: {{ja-noun|きそ}} 昨日(きそ) • (kiso)
  1. last night Categories (topical): Day, Past
    Sense id: en-昨日-ja-noun-i2S-nVmX Disambiguation of Day: 22 22 34 22 Disambiguation of Past: 22 22 34 22 Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese entries with language name categories using raw markup, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese words with multiple readings Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 18 18 46 18 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with language name categories using raw markup: 9 9 73 9 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 5 5 86 5 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 5 5 85 5 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 12 12 63 12 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 10 10 70 10 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 10 10 70 10 Disambiguation of Japanese words with multiple readings: 27 10 53 10
  2. yesterday
    Sense id: en-昨日-ja-noun-lSPZ--eb1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3 Coordinate_terms: 一昨々日 (sakiototoi) (ruby: 一昨々日(さきおととい)) (english: three days ago), 一昨日 (ototoi) (ruby: 一昨日(おととい)) (english: the day before yesterday, two days ago), 今日 (kyō) (ruby: 今日(きょう)) (english: today), 明日 (ashita) (ruby: 明日(あした)) (english: tomorrow), 明後日 (asatte) (ruby: 明後日(あさって)) (english: the day after tomorrow, two days from now), 明々後日 (shiasatte) (ruby: 明々後日(しあさって)) (english: three days from now), 弥の明後日: three days from now (yanoasatte), four days from now [dialectal], 今朝 (kesa) (ruby: 今朝(けさ)) (english: this morning), 今晩 (konban) (ruby: 今晩(こんばん)) (english: this evening), 今夜 (kon'ya) (ruby: 今夜(こんや)) (english: tonight), , 一昨昨日, 一昨日, 今日, 明日, 明後日, 毎日, , —, 一昨朝, 昨朝, 今朝, 明朝, 毎朝, , 一昨晩, 昨晩, 今晩, 明晩, 毎晩, , 先々週, 先週, 今週, 来週, 再来週, 毎週, , 先々月, 先月, 今月, 来月, 再来月, 毎月, , 一昨昨年, 一昨年, 去年, 今年, 来年, 再来年, 毎年

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