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Rei
12-11-2010, 10:31 AM
I was translating this Asriel song, and I came across this kanji "吟ふ". All the dictionaries I checked said it should be "Gin", but what I hear her sing is something like "Sofayou", which I'm sure is not correct. Then again, I have no idea what she's singing. Can anyone help? The song is [HARM] by Asriel.

AzureDark
12-11-2010, 11:57 AM
Anything that ends with -fu is likely -u because of archaic form, a frequent example is 思ふ which is still read as 'omou'. So changing 吟ふ into 吟う yields these two dictionary entries: goo (http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/leaf/jn2/89247/m0u/), Yahoo (http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch/0/0na/09045407435800/)

Wow. I've never thought of 'samayou' having that kind of meaning to the word ("wailing").

Rei
12-12-2010, 01:08 AM
That does make it interesting; and I didn't know about archaic forms. Thanks for the help! It pretty much explains everything.