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室積み (むろつみ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

室むろ積つみ

Meanings

1

noun

inn; lodging house

archaic

Archaic term for an inn or lodging house. Not used in modern Japanese; encountered only in historical texts.

古こ文ぶん書しょには「室むろ積つみ」という言こと葉ばが宿やどを指さして使つかわれている。
In old documents, the word '室積み' is used to refer to an inn.

Written forms

室むろ積つみ
Standard kanji spelling for this archaic term.
室むろ積つみ
Variant spelling without okurigana; less common.
館むろつみ
Ateji spelling using the kanji for 'building'.

Kanji

室room, apartment, chamber
積volume, product (x*y), acreage

building, mansion, large building

Similar words

宿やど
宿 is the common modern word for an inn or lodging, while 室積み is archaic.
旅りょ館かん
旅館 is a standard modern term for a Japanese-style inn, unlike the obsolete 室積み.

Etymology

The exact derivation is uncertain. The kanji 室 (room) and 積 (accumulate) may relate to the idea of a building with many rooms, but this is speculative.