ロープウエイ

ロープウエイ · roopuuei · JLPT N1 · noun

tramway

🚠 ropeway = rope + way: a way carried on a rope, so 'roopu-uei' is ROPE + WAY (ウェイ sounds like 'way').

ロープ (rope) + ウエイ (way, from English 'way' written with katakana). Aerial trams glide along a rope, so ropeway is a literal compound of its parts.

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