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メール [gai1] ；メイル [sk] ；メェル [sk]

[n,vs,vi] [abbr]
▶ email

Cross references:
	⇒ see: 1443350 電子メール 1. email; e-mail; electronic mail

[n]
《usu. in compounds》
▶ mail
▶ post

[n,vs,vi] [col]
▶ message (in an instant messaging application)
▶ instant message
▶ IM
▶ (SMS) text

Conjugations

History:

13.	A 2024-04-25 00:21:46 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
12.	A* 2024-04-24 23:59:22 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	I think this is a more accurate term.
	Diff:	@@ -35 +35 @@ -<gloss>message (sent over a chat application)</gloss> +<gloss>message (in an instant messaging application)</gloss>
11.	A 2024-04-23 11:05:53 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	メール 144,759,040 99.7% メイル 337,522 0.2% メェル 98,818 0.1%
	Diff:	@@ -10 +10 @@ -<re_inf>&ik;</re_inf> +<re_inf>&sk;</re_inf> @@ -14 +14 @@ -<re_inf>&ik;</re_inf> +<re_inf>&sk;</re_inf> @@ -26,2 +26,2 @@ -<xref type="see" seq="1605680">郵便・1</xref> -<gloss>mail (usu. in compound words)</gloss> +<s_inf>usu. in compounds</s_inf> +<gloss>mail</gloss>
10.	A 2024-04-23 08:14:51 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	I've tweaked some sentence indices.
9.	A* 2024-04-23 07:09:34 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	[vi]: sankoku, iwakoku, shinsen
	Comments:	"male" needs to be split due to etymology. I'll propose a new entry.
	Diff:	@@ -18,0 +19 @@ +<pos>&vi;</pos> @@ -31,0 +33 @@ +<pos>&vi;</pos> @@ -37,6 +38,0 @@ -</sense> -<sense> -<pos>&n;</pos> -<xref type="see" seq="1420160">男性・1</xref> -<xref type="see" seq="1589190">雄・おす</xref> -<gloss>male</gloss>
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8.	A 2021-08-02 11:52:09 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
7.	A* 2021-08-02 07:19:14 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Diff:	@@ -33,0 +34,2 @@ +<gloss>instant message</gloss> +<gloss>IM</gloss>
6.	A 2019-07-05 21:07:45 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Looks good to me.
5.	A* 2019-07-05 20:52:25 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	I think "message" is sufficient. "Private message" makes me think of direct messages (on Twitter, Instagram, etc.) SMS never caught on in Japan but I've seen メール used as a translation for "text".
	Diff:	@@ -33 +33,2 @@ -<gloss>private message (sent over a chat application, etc.)</gloss> +<gloss>message (sent over a chat application)</gloss> +<gloss>(SMS) text</gloss>
4.	A* 2019-07-05 07:36:51 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Yes, I hear this often. I suggest making it a separate col-tagged sense. Not sure about the clarification.
	Diff:	@@ -30,0 +31,6 @@ +<pos>&vs;</pos> +<misc>&col;</misc> +<gloss>private message (sent over a chat application, etc.)</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<pos>&n;</pos>
3.	A* 2019-07-05 02:38:42 Nicolas Maia
	Comments:	None of the sources I checked support this, but Japanese people seem to sometimes use メール as a synonym for "text message", as in ラインでメールする. It might be colloquial or slangy.
2.	A 2017-02-06 22:28:11 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1.	A* 2017-02-05 20:44:16 Robin Scott
	Refs:	KM n-grams: メール 2359437 メイル 37622
	Comments:	Neither daijr nor daijs lists メイル (even as an alternative) and corpus counts are less than 2% of that of メール. I think it's fair to tag it as "irregular".
	Diff:	@@ -9,0 +10 @@ +<re_inf>&ik;</re_inf> @@ -17,0 +19 @@ +<xref type="see" seq="1443350">電子メール</xref> @@ -23 +25,3 @@ -<gloss>mail (usu. in phrases and compound words)</gloss> +<xref type="see" seq="1605680">郵便・1</xref> +<gloss>mail (usu. in compound words)</gloss> +<gloss>post</gloss> @@ -26,0 +31,2 @@ +<xref type="see" seq="1420160">男性・1</xref> +<xref type="see" seq="1589190">雄・おす</xref>

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