Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/wo
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Proto-Japonic
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Possibly related to *we (“man”) and *wi (“boar”).
Noun
[edit]*wo
Descendants
[edit]- Old Japanese: 男 (wo, “man”)
- Japanese: 男 (o) (in compounds)
- Old Japanese: 雄 (wo, “male”)
- Japanese: 雄 (o) (in compounds)
- Proto-Ryukyuan: *wo (“male”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Accent class: 2.1
Noun
[edit]*wo
Descendants
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Particle
[edit]*wo
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “お[を] 【緒】”, 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