不死身

/ɸɯ̟ʑimʲi/

JAPONCA → TR

Tanım

•invulnerable, indestructible, immortal · invulnerable, unfazable, unflappable: not becoming discouraged or frustrated in the face of failure or difficulty

Etimoloji

Compound of 不死 (fuji-, “immortality, deathlessness”, this reading only found in a few compounds; in isolation, the reading is fushi) + 身 (mi, “body”). The apparent rendaku on the middle syllable is difficult to explain. Rendaku usually only happens at the boundaries of a compound's elements, whereas here we see the initial element 不死 (fushi) shift to 不死 (fuji-). Phonologically, this would suggest…