First opened Saturday, March 17, 2012
合わす
あわす
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 2
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
to join together, to face, to unite
Awasu is a doublet of 合わせる (awaseru), its conjugation shifted irregularly from the bigrade pattern.
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
Written with 合
In a sentence
みんなに合わしとけ。
Go along with the crowd.
彼はその破片をくっつけ合わした。
He stuck the broken pieces together.
Sentences are from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), picked by fixed rules from a dated export and shown unchanged. Nobody has reviewed them one by one.
What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “The quadrigrade conjugation pattern (modern quintigrade) is a result from an irregular shift from the earlier bigrade pattern, with the expected modern form being this terms doublet of 合わせる (awaseru).”
Source: Wiktionary: 合わす (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).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Sound change
- The pronunciation shifted over the centuries.