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Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/mosirə

This Proto-Japonic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Japonic

Reconstruction

Various dialects in the far north of the Tōhoku region have /mosVro/, and the Izumo dialect has /mosï̥ro/ where /me ~ mï ~ mɯ̈/ would be expected in the case of *mu.

Pronunciation
  • Accent class: 3.4a

Noun

*mosirə

  1. straw mat

Descendants
  • Old Japanese: 筵, 蓆, 席, 莚 (musiro2)
    • Japanese: 筵, 蓆, 席, 莚 (mushiro, Heian LLL, Tokyo 3 [LHH-L], Kyoto 2 [HLL-L],[1] Kagoshima B [LLH-L][2])
  • Proto-Ryukyuan: *mosiro (tone class C)

References
  1. “むしろ 【筵・蓆・席・莚】”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”) ‎ (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here (Note: Dialectal meanings, etymological theories, pronunciation including modern, dialectal, and historical information, Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, historical dictionaries containing this word, and the kanji spellings in those dictionaries have been omitted.)
  2. Hirayama, Teruo, editor (1960), 全国アクセント辞典 (Zenkoku Akusento Jiten, “Nationwide Accent Dictionary”) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō, →ISBN
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