Reconstruction talk:Proto-Japonic/urusa

Reconstruction issues
Starling's PJN (Proto-Japanese) reconstructions are problematic. First of all, not attested in OJ (first attestion late heian period). Second of all, this term originally meant overwhelming (c.f. PJ ?); the earliest meaning. Second here are Ryukyuan terms meaning annoying:
 * Amami:
 * Kunigami: kasiimaseN (姦せん?)
 * Okinawan: kasimasjan 姦しゃん 姦さん

Particularly 'noisy', IIRC the JA cognates were attested late pointing to a borrowing. Further research has to be done on Ryukyuan variants of 'annoying'.

So this word is certainly not Proto-Japonic. Chuterix (talk) 00:51, 27 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Ya, Starling has some serious problems when it comes to their Japanese etymologies. See also this past thread, wherein I summarized specific failings of Dolgopolsky's work (on which Starostin bases his later StarLing reconstructions). ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 06:12, 27 June 2023 (UTC)