japanesey

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

"The lawns are spotted with curious, low-spreading, Japanesey-looking trees, and under these trees students squat on the grass with their books."
"The American tourist in Japan looks less for what is Japanese than for what is Japanesey."

Etymology tree Hokkien 日本 (Ji̍t-pún)bor. Malay Jepangbor. Portuguese Japãobor. ▲ Malay Jepangbor. Dutch Japanbor. English Japan Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor. Late Latin -iscus ▲ Vulgar Latin -iscus Latin -ēnsis Old French -eisbor. Middle English -eys English -ese English Japanese Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English Japanesey From Japanese + -y.

more Japanesey (comparative) most Japanesey (superlative)

easy peasy Japanesey

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