Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/təwə
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Proto-Japonic[edit]
← 1 | ← 9 | 10 | 1,000 → | 10,000 → |
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Cardinal: *təwə |
Etymology[edit]
Possibly cognate with Goguryeo 德 (*tək).
According to Ono (1970), related to *tawa or *təwə (“bend”) from the common hand-counting method of showing the number 10 by bending all fingers over the bent thumb, although this is rejected by Miller (1971), who instead proposed a relationship with Proto-Tungusic *ʒuban (“ten”).
However, the Altaic hypothesis is nowadays widely rejected, so the Tungusic comparison remains unlikely.
Numeral[edit]
*təwə