Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/takara
Proto-Japonic
editEtymology
editMartin reconstructs this as a compound of *taka (“high”) + *-ra (pluralizing suffix).[1] However, this is semantically problematic, as such would ordinarily refer to “the heights” as a location, and there is no clear means of deriving the sense of “treasure” from the proposed component parts.
Noun
edit*takara
Descendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Samuel E. Martin (1987) The Japanese Language Through Time, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN