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重んじる
おもんじる
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to respect, to honor, to esteem, to prize
Omonjiru is a shift from the verb 重んずる (omonzuru), as -uru verbs moved to the -iru pattern.
Taken apart
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Written with 重
In a sentence
彼は学校で重んじられた。
He was made much of at school.
その子は両親を重んじた。
That child thought much of his parents.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Shift from verb 重(おも)んずる (omonzuru), by natural progression from サ行変格活用 (sa-gyō henkaku katsuyō, “s-irregular conjugation”) verbs ending in -uru to 上一段活用 (kami ichidan katsuyō, “upper monograde conjugation”) verbs ending in -iru.”
Source: Wiktionary: 重んじる (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.