the East Asian rainy season (from early June to early/mid-July)
köken: First attested in the mid-Muromachi period. Derivation unclear, likely theories include: * May be cognate with 露 (tsuyu, “dew, dewdrop”), from the way the rainy season causes everything to be covered in drops that may look like dew. However, the pitch accent differs, as 露 (tsuyu) has either an 頭高型 (atamadaka-gata) or 尾高型 (odaka-gata) pattern, while 梅雨 (tsuyu) has a 平板型 (heiban-gata) pattern. *…
aile: 梅雨上がり, 梅雨明け, 梅雨入り, 梅雨型, 梅雨曇り, 梅雨寒, 梅雨空, 梅雨茸, 梅雨時, 梅雨の入り
The East Asian rainy season between spring and summer
eş: 구우, 임우
köken: First attested in the Sinjeung yuhap (新增類合 / 신증유합), 1576, as Middle Korean 댱마 (Yale: tyangma), a compound of 댱(長) (tyang, “long, lengthy”, a Sino-Korean morpheme) + 맣 (mah, “monsoon season”). The Sino-Korean element may have been added for disambiguation. The Middle Korean 맣 (Yale: mah, “monsoon season”) does not survive in modern Korean, but is still found as the first element of 마파람 (maparam,…