Reconstruction talk:Proto-Japonic/kusori

Roots
The term is cognate with now-obsolete adjective. The common root kusu also appears in older compounds, such as, , obsolete verb , , even the camphor tree , etc. The noun kusuri appears to be a compound or other kind of derivation of root form kusu. This might rule out that medial in the reconstructed form  currently given on the entry page. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 16:50, 11 June 2019 (UTC)


 * The compounds might be from an earlier *kusor-, and kususi might be from earlier *kusorsi. Many Ryukyuan dialects front *su to shi, si, or sï, which rarely happens in this case, so we can reconstruct medial *-o-. Chuterix (talk) 13:08, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
 * In addition Konkō Kenshū records くそし for 医師 'doctor'. Chuterix (talk) 13:14, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
 * One interesting problem we have then, if is from Proto-Japonic, is that this becomes phonologically identical to 🇨🇬 ← OJP  ← Proto-Japonic.
 * The semantics become immediately problematic. How do we have both "mystical substance" (positive) and "shit" (negative) coming from the same root?
 * (Side note: adjectives are formed from [root] + [adjective suffix]. There could be no *kusorsi, as medial consonants are disallowed in Japonic phonology.  Given regular Proto → OJP vowel patterns as described at w:Proto-Japonic, kusosi would naturally shift to kususi, so there's no need to posit any *kusorsi form.) ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 20:07, 13 February 2024 (UTC)