Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/to

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

Etymology

According to Beckwith, related to the Kara word dol (/dor/, “door”)[1].

Noun

*to

door

Derived terms

*tonari (“neighbor, neighborhood, next door”) (possibly)
*yanto (“inn, lodging; home, house”)

Descendants

Old Japanese: 戸 (to₁)
- Japanese: 戸 (to)
Proto-Ryukyuan: *to
- Northern Ryukyuan:
  - Kikai: 戸 (θu)
  - Kunigami: 戸 (thu)
  - Northern Amami-Oshima: 戸 (θo)
  - Okinawan: 戸 (tu)
  - Oki-No-Erabu: 戸 (tu)
  - Southern Amami-Oshima: 戸 (tu)
  - Toku-No-Shima: 戸 (tu)
  - Yoron: 戸 (tu)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
  - Miyako: 戸 (tu)
  - Yaeyama: 戸 (tu)
  - Yonaguni: 戸 (tu)
→ Jeju: 도 (do)

References

Beckwith, Christopher I. (2004), “Koguryo, the language of Japan's continental relatives: an introduction to the historical-comparative study of the Japanese-Koguryoic languages with a preliminary description of Archaic Northeastern Middle Chinese”, in Brill's Japanese Studies Library, Brill, page 40.

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[1] Beckwith, Christopher I. (2004), “Koguryo, the language of Japan's continental relatives: an introduction to the historical-comparative study of the Japanese-Koguryoic languages with a preliminary description of Archaic Northeastern Middle Chinese”, in Brill's Japanese Studies Library, Brill, page 40.