Talk:己

In other pages it says 己#Japanese can be a pronoun na, but not here. How comes?

Examples of pages linking to 己#Japanese as a pronoun na: 汝#Etymology 5, 나#Etymology 2, etc.

Okinawan

@MiguelX413, in your recent revisions, there are a few issues.

• Your JLECT reference appears to be a dead link. Could you double-check and fix the URL?
• You linked to a purported Japanese cognate, the term 己 (ura, “you”). However, from what I can find, the only such reading and meaning for this kanji appears during the Edo period (roughly 1600–1868) as a shift from ora, also an Edo-period innovation as a shift from ore. This makes it much too late to be the source of the Okinawan term. In addition, the ura, ora, and ore readings were only ever used as first-person pronouns ("I, me").

The other Japanese ura terms all have to do with "inside, backside, inner", as in 裏 (ura, “the inside of something”), 心 (ura, “one's inner thoughts and feelings”), 占 (ura, “divination, prophecy”, from the sense of "inner truth").

Do you have any sources that explicitly relate Okinawan 己 (/ʔjaː/) and a mainland Japanese term?

Cheers, ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 21:02, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

@Eirikr: I was mainly citing the JLect link which I fixed, I'm just going to move the entry back to っやー, since it's rarely written in Kanji anyways. MiguelX413 (talk) 00:25, 12 September 2019 (UTC)