Re: meku

d3ntaku@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> can someone give hints on what the meku suffix means?
> "something like"
>
> is it similar to marude?
>
>
> 社長の皮肉めいた言い方を、社員は不快に感じている
>
> because of the President's sarcastic like way of speech, the employees
> felt uncomfortable.

You're close. For -meku, how about "take on the look/feel of." So
-meita gives you the past + stative of that.

I suspect it is related somehow to 目、見. 春めく is a standard
dictionary item.

The big question that everyone is afraid to ask: is that the same -meku
as in hatameku, hirameku, honomeku? At least two of those have a visual
aspect, but wouldn't seem to mean "come to look like."

> http://www.jgram.org/pages/viewOne.php?tagE=meku

Bart
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