Talk:鞠

Etymology
This is attested in the  of 720, but spelled with.

There's but the second consonant is irregular. I cannot find Kunigami from the google books snippet search within Nakijin Hogen Jiten. To continue,, ,. The cognates point to PR *mari, not **mare, which is important because this rejects the reconstruction of PJ *marəy. But noticed a *mar- root (compare ).

(passing by) : What's the Proto-Japonic reconstruction of, Eastern , Modern and  ? You can also make the PJ and PR reconstruction entry of such marV cognates (not mari). Chuterix (talk) 14:54, 15 June 2023 (UTC)


 * FWIW, mari ("ball") and mar[o|u] ("round; circle") appear to be separate derivations from the same underlying mar- root. I don't think a good case could be made for these all being the same word. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 22:28, 21 June 2023 (UTC)