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The History of the Japanese Particle “ I ”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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The Japanese language contains a number of words that are pronounced differently when standing in the attributive position. The following is a list of such words, taken mainly from the literary monuments of the eighth century A.D.1
(1) e:a. ame heaven, sky: ama-hire (sky—shawl) cloud. ame rain: ama-giri2 (rain—mist) rainy mist. fune ship: funa-de ( < *funa-ide ship—departure) departure of a ship. ine rice-plant: ina-muširo (rice plant—mat) a pillow-word used for qualifying šiki (dense, heavy, frequent) and kaha (river) which are homonymous with šiki (to spread) and kaha (skin).
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , February 1930 , pp. 889 - 895
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page 889 note 1 In order to unify the system of transcribing words in various languages, including Japanese, which are introduced in the present paper, I have adopted the following symbols: Turkish ä ═ Japanese e ═ e in bed; ă ═ u in but; ә ═ er in butter; ї ═ e in pretty; f (Jap., Luehuan) ═ bilabial voiceless fricative; β ═ bilabial voiced fricative; ç ═ ch in German ich; x ═ ch in German Buch; š ═ sh in sheep; tš ═ ch in cheek; dž ═ j in jar; q ═ uvular voiceless plosive.
page 889 note 2 The initial voiceless consonant of the second word usually becomes voiced, thus -h- > -b-, -t- > -d-, -k- > -g-, unless the word contains a voiced consonant, when the initial consonant remains unvoiced.
page 890 note 1 The most archaic Japanese word meaning “ the back of the body ” is sobira, of which *SO is apparently a contraction.
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