Reconstruction talk:Proto-Japonic/tanosi

*sanesi seems unlikely development
@Chuterix, re:, do we have any other examples of either the →  shift, or the  →  shift, required to connect Proto-Ryukyuan *sanesi with Proto-Japonic *tanosi?

Neither shift makes sense to me as any kind of Japonic phonological process.

I find myself wondering if this might not instead represent an adjective formed from a root *sane, such as in OJP, or even. I don't have access to any Yaeyama or Yonaguni materials, however, so I am uncertain of the semantics of the modern reflexes. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 18:48, 19 January 2024 (UTC)


 * The Ishigaki Dialect Dictionary p. 375 lists this:
 * サ⌜ニ⌝シャーン [sa⌜ni⌝ʃaːŋ] (形) 嬉しい. 楽しい. 「楽（たぬ）しあり」の転訛.
 * Note how /u/ can go from /o/, so it's an ablaut. See this presentation (albeit not peer-reviewed?) here for more info (although doesn't mention this.) Chuterix (talk) 20:56, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
 * In a Twitter DM with Huisu Yun (the creator), he said this answer on January 14, 2024:
 * *sanesi- sounds like a good candidate, but *t → *s before *a would have weaker motivation compared to, e.g., *ti [tɕi], *tu [tsu] → *si, *su. of course, not entirely impossible, though.
 * Chuterix (talk) 20:58, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: The creator is about the presentation. Chuterix (talk) 20:58, 19 January 2024 (UTC)