akeru

a word from vocabulary Japanese by Christopher K. Schmidt  
Word form akeru
Original script 開ける(open), 空ける(make empty)
LWT meaning(s)
Word meaning It can also mean ’make empty’, in which case it is written with a different character.
Grammatical info Transitive. Intransitive form aku.
Analyzability semi-analyzable
Gloss ak-eru open-TR
Age Old Japanese [21] (710–794)
Lexical stratum wago
Year 書記 (720)
Comparison with Korean Class 2: (meaning of K term is ’a little open, not quite fitting’, and probably has a suffix): K akïs- < *ak-. (158, cf.aku; ago)
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