初める

そめる

to begin to

知り始める

しりはじめる

to begin to know

渡り初め

わたりぞめ

bridge-opening ceremony, first crossing of a bridge

初め

ぞめ はじめ

first doing of... (ever, in one's life, in the new year, etc.)

見初める

みそめる

to fall in love at first sight

為初める

しそめる ためそめる

to begin to do

恋い初める

こいそめる

to begin to love

咲き初める

さきそめる

to begin to blossom

明け初める

あけそめる

to dawn

初めとする

はじめとする

comencing with, including

仕初め

しぞめ

outset, beginning, starting (things)

初めて

はじめて

for the first time

月初め

つきはじめ

beginning of month

鍬初め

くわはじめ

New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction

出初め

でぞめ

debut

初めに

はじめに

first, firstly, first of all, to begin with, in the beginning, at the beginning

仮初め

かりそめ こうしょ かりはじめ

temporary, transient

着初め

きぞめ

first wearing (of new clothes)

為初め

しそめ ためはじめ

outset, beginning