蠢く

Japanese

Kanji in this term
うごめ
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Etymology

うご (ugo, an ideophone also found in the verb (うご) (ugoku) and the adverb うごうご (ugougo)) + めく (-meku, to show signs of, to have the appearance of, to look like, to seem like, a verb-forming suffix)[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

(うごめ) • (ugomeku) intransitive godan (stem (うごめ) (ugomeki), past (うごめ)いた (ugomeita))

  1. squirm

Conjugation

References

  1. 蠢く”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten) (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
  4. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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