User:Chuterix/Chuterix's Proto-Japonic Reconstruction Dictionary Project

I'm an etymologist who's currently on the work of creating Japanese (not on'yomi, as many are derived from Middle Chinese) etymologies; focusing here on the ones from Proto-Japonic! I am also trying to revive the Proto-Japonic information that will be available. Soon I may create a complete list of Proto-Japonic words (if I can).

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• Proto-Japonic words possibly borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian and Proto-Indo-European?

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• Reconstructions by other linguists
  • For older reconstructions, see here

Reconstructions

Note: New reconstructions are no longer added here. Please see my contributions page here for a list of created reconstructions and more.

• *asonpu (“to play”)
  • Modern 遊ぶ (asobu, “to play”)
• *nanka (“long”) - With the help of (and thanks to) Kwékwlos (talk • contribs) for Ryukyuan word list creation and giving me (us) a Ryukyuan source to refer to
  • Modern 長い (nagai, “long”)
• *yaku (“burn, grill”)
  • Modern 焼く (yaku, “burn, grill”)
• *patakay (“dry field”) - With the help of some Japonic resources and Kwékwlos (talk • contribs) for Ryukyuan word list creation
  • Modern 畑 (hatake, “dry field”)
• *tənpu (“to fly, to jump”)
  • Modern 飛ぶ (tobu, “to fly”)
• *wontəru (“to jump, to dance”)
  • Modern 踊る (odoru, “to dance”)
• *turu (“to fish”)
  • Modern 釣る (to fish)

Miscellaneous

Pre-Proto-Japonic Reconstructions

Possibly roots belong to Pre-Proto-Japonic, an earlier stage of Proto-Japonic, or at least reconstructed roots that are now extinct.

*puk-

I suggest this reconstruction of Pre-Proto-Japonic root *puk- to support the following words:

• 膨る (pukur-, Old Japanese pronunciation):
  • 膨れる (fukureru, “to swell”)
  • 膨らむ (fukuramu, “to swell”)
    • 膨らます (fukuramasu, “to make swell, to fill up”)
• 吹く (fuku, “to blow”)
• 袋 (fukuro, “bag”)

*pVt-

• *pitə (“one”)
• *patu (“first”)
• *pa (“edge”, via deletion of the -t element) (< *pat)