samui

a word from vocabulary Japanese by Christopher K. Schmidt  
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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