Illustration: In a family pottery workshop, a young potter holds a freshly shaped bowl beside a framed old photograph. The photograph shows their grandmother, recognizably younger, making a bowl with the same unusual scalloped rim at the same workbench.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

ルーツ

ruutsu

roots, origin

Example sentences

  1. 食材しょくざいをさまざまなスパイスで味付あじつける習慣しゅうかんのインド料理りょうりがルーツである。

    The roots of this dish are Indian cuisine, in which foods are customarily seasoned with various spices.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 民間みんかんでもこれに倣ならって宴会えんかいが行おこなわれ、新年会しんねんかいのルーツと言いわれている。

    Ordinary people also held banquets following this custom, which is said to be the origin of today’s New Year’s party.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. ルーツは関西急電かんさいきゅうでんと呼よばれる京阪神間けいはんしんかんの急行電車きゅうこうでんしゃ。

    Its roots are traced to the express train called Kansai Kyuden, which ran between Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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