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えも言はずえも言はぬ [sK]
えもいわず
1. [exp,adj-f] [arch]
《also used adverbially》
▶ indescribable (beauty, awfulness, etc.)
▶ unutterable
▶ inexpressable
▶ unspeakable



History:
5. A 2025-03-31 06:48:37  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Very marginal.
4. A* 2025-03-30 12:37:34  Sombrero1
  Refs:
taishukan全訳古語: 何とも言いようがないほど甚だしい
Shinsen: なんとも言いようがないほどすばらしく。
Both give adjectival glosses but shinsen points out that it is also adverbially. 

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーー─┬────┬───────╮
│ えも言はず │ 50 │ 61.0% │
│ えも言はぬ │ 32 │ 39.0% │might just have it here as a search key? The other option would be to have a second entry
╰─ーーーーー─┴────┴───────╯
  Comments:
Doesn't mean "inexplicably" from what I can see. Adj-f might also be appropriate here
  Diff:
@@ -5,0 +6,4 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>えも言はぬ</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -11,0 +16 @@
+<pos>&adj-f;</pos>
@@ -13,2 +18,5 @@
-<gloss>inexplicably</gloss>
-<gloss>unexplainably</gloss>
+<s_inf>also used adverbially</s_inf>
+<gloss>indescribable (beauty, awfulness, etc.)</gloss>
+<gloss>unutterable</gloss>
+<gloss>inexpressable</gloss>
+<gloss>unspeakable</gloss>
3. A 2012-05-27 23:22:02  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
2. A* 2012-05-27 20:32:11  Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
koj, daij, nikk, oubunsha kogo jiten.  all use the headword えも言はず and indicate that は is pronounced わ here
  Comments:
please provide references and an english translation.  it's not our duty to translate japanese to english nor estonian to english
  Diff:
@@ -5,1 +5,1 @@
-<keb>えも言わず</keb>
+<keb>えも言はず</keb>
@@ -11,2 +11,4 @@
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<gloss>???</gloss>
+<pos>&exp;</pos>
+<misc>&arch;</misc>
+<gloss>inexplicably</gloss>
+<gloss>unexplainably</gloss>
1. A* 2012-05-27 06:32:46 
  Comments:
sõnul seletamatu

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