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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.
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Proto-Japonic
Alternative reconstructions
Etymology
Related to Baekje ホカ (*poka, “outside”).[1]
The second mora means "place".
Noun
*poka
- other side
Descendants
- Old Japanese: 外, 他 (poka)
- Proto-Ryukyuan: *poka
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kunigami: 外, 他 (fukā)
- Northern Amami Ōshima: 外, 他 (hoxa)
- Okinawan: 外, 他 (fuka)
- Okinoerabu: 外, 他 (fukā)
- Southern Amami Ōshima: 外, 他 (fka)
- Tokunoshima: 外, 他 (fuka)
- Yoron: 外, 他 (fuka)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako: 外, 他 (puka)
- Yaeyama: 外, 他 (fuka)
- Yonaguni: 外, 他 (fuga)
References
- ^ John Bentley (2000) “New Look at Paekche and Korean: Data from Nihon shoki”, in Language Research[1], volume 36, number 2, Seoul National University, pages 417—443