a kind of oni that appears in various folktales as the bad guy, who deliberately goes against what people say · someone with a personality or behavior reminiscent of the folktale character: a crank, a perverse person · in Buddhist statuary, the small devil or demon being trampled under the feet of a 仁王 (Niō, “Deva king”) or one of the 四天王 (Shitennō, “four Deva warriors”)
köken: Compound of 天(あま) (ama, “heaven”) + の (no, possessive particle) + 邪鬼(じゃき) (jaki, “vengeful spirit, cursing kami”). The jaku reading for the 邪鬼 term is unusual, and the reason for this deviation from the expected jaki reading is unclear. One theory holds that the reading is a shift from 天探女 (ama no sagume), the name of a yōkai that appears in ancient Japanese tales and that seems to have been…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der. Proto-Italic *peri- Latin per- Proto-Indo-European *wert- Proto-Indo-European *wértetor Proto-Italic *wertō Latin vertō Latin pervertō Latin perversusder. Esperanto perversa From Latin perversus.