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老い先
【 おいさき 】
1. [n]
▶ remaining years (of an old person's life)
Cross references:
  ⇒ see: 2831719 老い先短い 1. not having long to live



History:
4. A 2022-11-16 21:56:07  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3. A* 2022-11-16 21:12:56  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
gg5, daij
  Comments: 
Not of a young person with a terminal illness, for example.
  Diff: 
@@ -13 +13 @@
-<gloss>remaining years (of one's life)</gloss>
+<gloss>remaining years (of an old person's life)</gloss>
2. A 2022-11-15 22:22:49  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2022-11-15 22:15:43  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs: 
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーー─┬────────╮
│ 老い先　　　 │ 13,290 │
│ 老い先短い　 │  9,152 │
│ 老い先が短い │    212 │
╰─ーーーーーー─┴────────╯
  Comments: 
Mostly used in x-ref
  Diff: 
@@ -11,0 +12 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="2831719">老い先短い</xref>

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