神戸

See also: 神戶, and 神户

Japanese

Alternative spelling
神戶 (kyūjitai)

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Kōbe

Wikipedia

⟨kamu pe₁⟩ → ⟨kamube₁⟩ → */kamubʲe/ → /kaũbe/ → /kɔːbe/ → /koːbe/

Originally a compound of 神 (kamu, Old Japanese combining form of kami, “(Shinto) god, deity”) ‎ 戸 (he, “house”); itself referring to 生田神社 (Ikuta Jinja, “Ikuta Shrine”) as attested in the Nihon Shoki (720 CE).^[1]^[2]

神(こう)戸(べ) • (Kōbe) ^{←かうべ (Kaube)^?}

Kobe (the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan)
昨日(きのう)、神(こう)戸(べ)から東(とう)京(きょう)に引(ひ)っ越(こ)しました。
Kinō, Kōbe kara Tōkyō ni hikkoshimashita.
I moved from Kobe to Tokyo yesterday.

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Compound of 神 (kamu, combining form of kami₂, “(Shinto) god, deity”) ‎ 戸 (pe₁, “house”). The pe₁ changes to be₁ as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

神戸 (kamube₁) (kana かむべ)

under the 律令 (Ritsuryō) system, a shrine in the 封戸 (fuko) household of taxation
- 720, Nihon Shoki, Emperor Sujin, seventh year of reign [c. 90 BCE], thirteenth day of the eleventh month:
  然後卜祭_二他社_一、吉_レ焉。便別祭_二八十萬群神_一。仍定_二天社、國社、及神地、神戸_一。
  Then after was the divination and veneration to the other gods, thereupon [it was] good. Then the other eighty and ten thousand gods were venerated separately. A shrine was dedicated to the ama tsu yashiro [heavenly deities], kuni tsu yashiro [national deities], as well as the godly places and the shrine households.