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懸け隔たる (かけへだたる) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

懸かけ隔へだたる

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Meanings

1

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

be far apart; be remote; be quite different

Archaic or highly literary verb. In modern Japanese, the same meaning is usually expressed by かけ離れている or 遠く隔たっている.

両りょう者しゃの意い見けんは懸かけ隔へだたっていた。
Their opinions were far apart.
その村むらは都みやこから懸かけ隔へだたっ

て

いる

。

The village is remote from the capital.

Written forms

懸かけ隔へだたる
Archaic kanji spelling; the word is now almost always written in kana.
かけへだたるUsage100%
Modern kana spelling; the kanji forms are rarely used.
懸かけ隔へだたる
Variant kanji spelling; also archaic.

Kanji

懸state of suspension, hang, depend
隔isolate, alternate, distance

Similar words

かけ離はなれる
Modern and common verb for 'be far apart' or 'be quite different'. 懸け隔たる is its archaic equivalent.
隔へだたる
Still used in modern Japanese for physical or temporal distance, but 懸け隔たる adds an emphatic prefix かけ- and is now obsolete.

Etymology

Compound of prefix かけ- (emphatic) and verb 隔たる (to be distant). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word is now archaic.