First opened Saturday, November 13, 2010
七日
なのか
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seven days; seventh day (of the month)
Nanoka was nanuka in the Man'yōshū of circa 759, and the nanoka reading is first cited from the late Edo period.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Shift from Old Japanese 七日 (nanuka), attested in the Man'yōshū of circa 759 CE; ultimately from Proto-Japonic *nanuka.”
- “The nanoka reading is first cited to a text from the late Edo period.”
Source: Wiktionary: 七日 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
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- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
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- Sound change
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