Reconstruction talk:Proto-Japonic/wa

wanu, ware
These are root form wa + suffixes -- derivatives, not descendants. The -re suffix is common in Japanese as a nominalizer, see also. The wanu form only seems to appear in Eastern Japanese, and is recorded just once that I can find in  book 14, poem 3476. Reading the context in the , this -nu ending might even be just the Eastern variant of nominalizing and possessive particle. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 17:46, 17 June 2020 (UTC)


 * , unsure how to link in the Ryūkyūan forms, since those all appear to be derivatives and not direct descendants, and thus throws up Lua errors.  ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 17:51, 17 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Done. Also, while searching through the Old Japanese dictionary, there are forms in marö, which apparently parallel warö. Do you think that this is just the lexeme ma "essence, truth"? Kwékwlos (talk) 18:39, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you!
 * Re: marö ↔ warö, what are the glosses for the terms you're looking at? The only marö I'm finding is the predecessor to modern, while for warö, I'm finding just .  I don't see any semantic overlap, nor any clear path to connecting either with.
 * Cheers, ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 00:37, 18 June 2020 (UTC)