Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/turu

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
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]

Etymology 1

[edit]

The core meaning appears to be vine; line; string as a noun, and to hang down, as a line or string; to form or take the shape of a line or string (both transitive and intransitive) as a verb.

Cognate with *tura (vine; line, string; line (of things), queue, procession).

Pronunciation

[edit]

Accent class: 2.2

Noun

[edit]

*turu

  1. a vine
  2. a line or string
Descendants
[edit]
vine
  • Old Japanese: (turu)
    • Japanese: (tsuru)
  • Proto-Ryukyuan: *turu
    • Northern Ryukyuan:
      • Northern Amami Ōshima: (tsïru)
    • Southern Ryukyuan:
      • Miyako: (tsïru)
      • Yonaguni: (chirun)
line, string
  • Old Japanese: (turu)
    • Japanese: (tsuru, bowstring; musical instrument string; metal handle attached to both sides of a pot, under which the pot hangs)
  • Proto-Ryukyuan: *turu
    • Northern Ryukyuan:
      • Okinawan: (chiru)
      • Okinoerabu: (chiru)
    • Southern Ryukyuan:
      • Yonaguni: (chirun)

Verb

[edit]

*turu (infinitive 1 *turi, infinitive 2 *turay)

  1. to hang down, as a line or string
  2. to form or take the shape of a line or string
  3. to fish
Descendants
[edit]
to hang; to fish
to form or take the shape of a line or string

Etymology 2

[edit]

Appears to be distinct from *turu meaning vine; line; string; to hang.

Vovin (2008) considers it possibly related to an ancestor of Korean 두루미 (durumi, crane), with a Pre-Proto-Japonic root-final -m vanishing later, leaving only a Kansai accent pattern behind (see pronunciation section below).[1] May ultimately be a regional Wanderwort. Compare also Proto-Turkic *turunya (crane) (whence Turkish turna), Mongolian тогоруу (togoruu, crane), Hungarian daru (crane). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • Accent class: 2.5x
    • The Proto-Ryukyuan accent is irregular.

Noun

[edit]

*turu

  1. a crane (large, long-legged and long-necked bird of the family Gruidae)
Descendants
[edit]
  • Old Japanese: (turu)
    • Japanese: (tsuru)
  • Proto-Ryukyuan: *turu (tone class A)
      • Northern Ryukyuan:
        • Kikai: (turu)
        • Kunigami: (chirū /⁠tɕìɾúː⁠/)
        • Northern Amami Ōshima: (tsïru)
        • Okinawan: (tsiru /⁠tsíɾù⁠/)
        • Okinoerabu: (tsuru /⁠tsùɾú⁠/)
        • Southern Amami Ōshima: (tïru /⁠tɨ̀ɾû⁠/)
        • Tokunoshima: 鶴ん鳥 (tsïruntui) (< *turu-n-tui)
      • Southern Ryukyuan:
        • Miyako: (churu)
        • Yaeyama: (tsïru /⁠tsɨ́ɾù⁠/)
        • Yonaguni: 鶴鳩 (chiru-hatu /⁠tɕìɾû.hàtù⁠/) (< *turu-pato)

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Bjarke Frellesvig and John Whitman, editors (2008), chapter 7, in Proto-Japanese: Issues and Prospects, Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Proto-Japanese beyond the accent system, pages 140-156