Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/pusi
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Proto-Japonic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps a suffixed form of an earlier *pu, compare Old Japanese 節 (ふ, pu).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Accent class: 2.3
Noun
[edit]*pusi
Descendants
[edit]- Old Japanese: 節 (pusi)
- Proto-Ryukyuan: *pusi (tone class B, but see entry for notes)
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Southern Ryukyuan:
References
[edit]- ^ “ふし 【節】”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”) [1] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here (Note: Dialectal meanings, etymological theories, pronunciation including modern, dialectal, and historical information, Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, historical dictionaries containing this word, and the kanji spellings in those dictionaries have been omitted.)
- ^ Hirayama, Teruo, editor (1960), 全国アクセント辞典 (Zenkoku Akusento Jiten, “Nationwide Accent Dictionary”) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō, →ISBN