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Etymology 1
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Usage notes
Do not confuse it with the kana iteration mark which is sometimes used in vertical text.

Etymology 3
Some obsolete inflections.

Verb

 * 1)  disappear
 * 2)  come

Etymology 4
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Originally a compound of the of verbs and adjectives and ;  contractions of vowel clusters caused it to be reanalyzed as the suffixes:


 * following
 * of and  verbs
 * following
 * of, , , and verbs
 * or of  verbs
 * following the stem of adjectives.

The use of this nominalizer is called.