いし

See also: いじ

Japanese

Etymology 1

Compound of い (i, emphatic marker) and し (shi, originally -si, emphatic marker). As -i was archaic even in Old Japanese, -si was attached to supplement it.

Particle

いし • (ishi)

emphatic nominative case marker
- c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 4, poem 537:
  事清甚毛莫言一日太尓君伊之哭者痛寸敢物
  KO₂TO₂ KI₁YO₁KU ITAKU mo NA IPI₁ SO₂ PI₁TO₂PI₁ dani KI₁MI₁ i si NAKUPA TAPE₂GATAKI₁ kamo
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 797: Shoku Nihongi (edict 13)
  是以王多知大臣乃子等治賜伊自天皇朝爾仕奉利婆婆爾仕奉爾波可在
  (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- 797: Shoku Nihongi (edict 13)
  故是以子波祖乃心成伊自子爾波可在
  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Etymology 2

Reading for various terms.

For pronunciation and definitions of いし – see the following entries.

【石】1	[noun] a stone [noun] (slang, electronics) a transistor

【医師】	[noun] (medicine) doctor

【倚子】	[noun] Original form of 椅子

【異志】	[noun] exceptionally good will; will that is different from others

【意志】	[noun] will (intention or decision)

【意思】	[noun] intention; intent; purpose; mind; a wish

【遺志】	[noun] will of the deceased; one's intent after death

【縊死】	[noun] death by hanging

【闈司】	[proper noun] (history) a 律令 (ritsuryō) position in the 後宮 (Kōkyū, “Seraglio”) that manages receipts and the key to the imperial gate

【懿旨】	[noun] (archaic) decree from an empress, empress dowager or grand empress dowager

(This term, いし (ishi), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as いし, see Category:Japanese kanji read as いし.)

(The following entries are uncreated: 以次, 位子, 胃歯, 移徙, 違旨, 遺子, 遺旨, 遺址, 遺屍, 頤指.)

References

Kurano, Kenji (1936) Shoku Nihongi Senmyō (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, and Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (c. 759) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man’yōshū 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1999, →ISBN.

Okinawan

Noun

いし (ishi)

石: stone