日本語の象徴語の語源--特に南島諸語に関連して-1-

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A remarkably rich repertory of symbolic words in the Japanese language suggests that no genealogical theory of the language would hold without some reference to their origins. Fortunately many proto-morphemes which have undergone a considerable phonological change elsewhere remain fairly intact in this group of lexicon. The Proto-Austronesian reconstructed forms garis, karkar; guris, kurkur, all meaning 'to scratch', remind us immediately of our imitatives gari-gari and gori-gori. From this pleasant pair of agreement follows a reasonable conclusion that Japanese kak-u 'to scratch', on the one hand, corresponds to karkar with the dropping of the syllable-final r's, and kok-u 'to scrape (grains) off', on the other hand, to kurkur also with the dropping of the similar r's (karkar> kaka> kak-; kurkur> koko> kok-). This paper attempts at explaining the origins of over 400 Japanese symbolic roots and their related words, and eventually proving a close relationship between Japanese and the Austronesian languages.
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