涎

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. drool, slobber, saliva

Etymology 1

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720.^[1][2][3]

Ultimately a compound of よ (yo, meaning uncertain) +‎ 垂り (tari, “hanging down”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of intransitive 四段 (yodan, “quadrigrade”) conjugation verb 垂る (taru, “to hang down”)).^[1] The tari changes to dari as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Superseded by the yodare reading, once the base verb 垂る (taru, “to hang down”) had shifted from the quadrigrade conjugation pattern to the lower bigrade pattern in the 15-1600s: see modern form 垂れる (tareru).

Etymology 2

Shift from earlier yodari reading, due to the base verb 垂る (taru, “to hang down”) shifting from the quadrigrade conjugation pattern to the lower bigrade pattern in the 15-1600s: see modern form 垂れる (tareru).

First attested in a dictionary from 1548.^[2]

References

Hanja

涎 (eum 연 (yeon))

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Han character

涎: Hán Nôm readings: diên, nhiện

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