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rikon
a word from vocabulary
Japanese
by
Christopher K. Schmidt
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Word form
rikon
Original script
離婚
LWT meaning(s)
the divorce
Analyzability
analyzable compound
Gloss
ri-kon leave-matrimony
Age
Modern Japanese [21] (1868–2007)
Lexical stratum
kango
Year
Civil Code (1898)
Register
General
Numeric frequency
20.3
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
2. probably borrowed
Comments
Could be a neologism modeled after the German word Scheidung. According to http://www.sole-kochi.or.jp/jyoho/publication/guchokipa/Vol_2/sk_g.html, divorce was introduced as a legal instituion during the Edo period.
Source words
líhūn
'divorce'
Chinese
Scheidung
'divorce'
German
Effect
Replacement
Salience
Present in pre-contact environment
Contact situation
Sinicization (possible neologism) [21]
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