| Word form | nemui |
| Original script | 眠い |
| LWT meaning(s) | |
| Word meaning | Various forms of tsukareru “to tire” are also used. |
| Comments on word | Modern variants nemui (mid-Muromachi) and nemutai (1592), obsolete variants nebui (1692), nebutai (mid-10th c.) |
| Analyzability | unanalyzable |
| Age | Late Old Japanese [21] (794–1185) |
| Lexical stratum | wago |
| Year | mid-10th century |
| Comparison with Korean | Class 2: (J has a suffix here; the vowel is problematic, but Martin notes that in Ryukyuan it is n(u)-): K nupw- < MK nupw-, < *nup-. (124, cf. nemuru, neru) |
| Register | General |