Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/mosirə

This Proto-Japonic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Japonic edit

Reconstruction edit

Various 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

  1. straw mat

Descendants edit

  • Old Japanese: , , , (musiro2)
    • Japanese: , , , (mushiro, Heian LLL, Tokyo 3 [LHH-L], Kyoto 2 [HLL-L],[1] Kagoshima B [LLH-L][2])
  • Proto-Ryukyuan: *mosiro (tone class C)

References edit

  1. ^ むしろ 【筵・蓆・席・莚】”, 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.)
  2. ^ Hirayama, Teruo, editor (1960), 全国アクセント辞典 (Zenkoku Akusento Jiten, Nationwide Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō, →ISBN