Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/təwə

Etymology
Possibly cognate with 🇨🇬.

According to, related to or  from the common hand-counting method of showing the number 10 by bending all fingers over the bent thumb, although this is rejected by , who instead proposed a relationship with 🇨🇬.

However, the Altaic hypothesis is nowadays widely rejected, so the Tungusic comparison remains unlikely.

Numeral

 * 1) ten