Word form | samui |
Original script | 寒い |
LWT meaning(s) | |
Word meaning | Referring to the weather. |
Analyzability | unanalyzable |
Age | Old Japanese [21] (710–794) |
Lexical stratum | wago |
Year | after 7th century |
Comparison with Korean | Class 1: K chupw- (< MK chipw- with aberrant vowel) < *tswampu. (48) (In MK, there are two words for ’cold’, cha and chi, the former referring to what can be touched, analogous to the J form tsumetai. The former would warrant a different reconstruction, namely *tsxa (49).) |
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