食う

Etymology
→ * →

From.

The medial vanishes because Japanese does not have a  phoneme. It surfaces though in various conjugations, such as the negative form kuwanai or the passive form kuwareru.

Possibly cognate with.

Verb

 * 1) to put something in one's mouth
 * 2)  to eat, to devour
 * 3) to make a living, to live; to survive
 * 4) to tease, to taunt, to make light of, to make fun of; to torment
 * 5) to bite, to sting
 * 1) to bite, to sting

Derived terms

 * ,, : obsolete for , ,
 * , : erosion
 * ,, : to erode, to be eaten away, to fall apart, to break
 * : a mulberry
 * ,, : obsolete for , ,
 * : obsolete for
 * ,, : to hold in one's mouth
 * : to add something, to increase or develop something; to inflict
 * : to increase, to grow; to be added on to something else; to join in
 * : there's no accounting for taste