Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/mosirə
Proto-Japonic
editReconstruction
editVarious dialects in the far north of the Tōhoku region have /mosVro/, and the Izumo dialect has /mosï̥ro/ where /me ~ mï ~ mɯ̈/ would be expected in the case of *mu.
Pronunciation
edit- Accent class: 3.4a
Noun
edit*mosirə
Descendants
edit- Old Japanese: 筵, 蓆, 席, 莚 (musiro2)
- Proto-Ryukyuan: *mosiro (tone class C)
- Northern Ryukyuan: 모시루 (/mo.si.ru/) (Haytong Ceykwukki, 1501)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
References
edit- ^ “むしろ 【筵・蓆・席・莚】 ”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten][1] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tokyo: 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