What is (たた）なわり?


A friend and I are slowly translating a Japanese novel (夢魔 by 森村誠一）together
for practice/fun, and we've found something weird (to us) in this sentence:

「丘陵状の山が波のようにたたなわり、山腹に民家が点在している。」

We couldn't find anything for the 「なわり」, but I did come across 「畳なはり」. Which
wasn't in our dictionary, but means "Tatami needle" according to the oh-so-
reliable Google Translate, ...which doesn't really make sense. The 「（たた）なわり」
needs to be a verb doesn't it?

So I looked around some more and saw 「畳なばり」 (Tatami needle), and 「畳まる」, a verb
meaning to fold.

As of right now, we're going with that verb, which makes our translation
something like "The hill-shaped mountain folds like a wave, and the
mountainside is dotted with private houses." It basically makes sense, and the
sound-change seems reasonable, but...

If anyone could tell us what this verb(?) is, or if our speculation seems
reasonable, we'd appreciate it...




It's a verb たたなわる. 広辞苑 defines it as "かさなりあってつらなる".

Anyway it's a very rare word. I can't remember any instance I actually
heard/read this word. Perhaps I never did.




It's a verb たたなわる. 広辞苑 defines it as "かさなりあってつらなる".

Anyway it's a very rare word. I can't remember any instance I actually
heard/read this word. Perhaps I never did.

