忘れな草

Japanese

忘れな草 (wasurenagusa): the wood forget-me-not (Myosotis sylvatica).

Alternative spelling
勿忘草

Calque of English forget-me-not, from 忘(わす)れな (wasurena, archaic negative form of verb 忘(わす)れる (wasureru, “to forget”)) + 草(くさ) (kusa, “grass”).[1][2][3] The kusa changes to gusa as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

First attested in 1913.[2] The wasurunagusa form is first attested in 1961.[2]

忘(わす)れな草(ぐさ) or 忘(ワス)れな草(グサ) • (wasurenagusa)

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ワスレナグサ.

Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
“勿忘草”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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