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to ponder; to brood

3

wine

3

to drink up; to drain (cup)

1

naming; christening

10

dictionary; lexicon

10

child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young (animal); young woman; offshoot

2

great person; eminent figure

1

ancestor; forefather; foremother

1

year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)

2

dictionary; lexicon; (arch.) letter of resignation

1

water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water); fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid; flood; floodwaters; water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout

3

to stream; to flow (liquid, time, etc.); to be washed away; to be carried; to drift; to float (e.g. clouds); to sweep (e.g. rumour, fire)

5

to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known

2

ancient Japanese (as spoken in Japan until the Middle Ages)

13

long ago

2

to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct

1

ancient civilization; ancient civilisation

6

language

5

various types

1

to write down; to note; to jot down; to remember

1

present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times

3

survival; remaining; being extant; being left

1

civilization; civilisation; culture; Bunmei era (1469.4.28-1487.7.20)

2

everyday conversation; day-to-day conversation

2

to disappear into; to slip into; to be lost in; to be mixed up with

1

very; much; greatly; a lot of

1

Yes or No

1

to trace back to (the origins of something)

1

proper noun

2

katakana; angular Japanese syllabary used primarily for loanwords

3

expression in writing; written representation; notation; writing on the surface (e.g. an address on an envelope); inscribing on the face

1

origin; source; history; originally; from the start; by nature

1

intimacy; friendship; familiarity

1

origin; beginning; source; rise

2

reference; consultation

1

to name; to call; to christen; to term

1

disliked; hated; tendency; smack (of); distinction; discrimination

2

period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness

4

to jump over; to clear; to walk over (someone)

1

reproduction; duplication; reprinting

1

preservation; conservation; storage; saving (e.g. to disk)

1

efforts; exertion; endeavour; assistance; services

1

to name

1

culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)

1

main; principal; chief; primary; major

1

as; because; with; due to

1

modern language; contemporary language; living language; modern Japanese; Japanese as spoken since the Meiji period or alternatively, since the end of World War II

1

to harvest; to reap; to take in; to gather in; to adopt (e.g. idea); to accept (e.g. advice)

1

modern style; modernness

1

archaic word; obsolete word; old saying; old adage; old language; ancient language

1