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tōchaku
a word from vocabulary
Japanese vocabulary
by
Christopher K. Schmidt
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Word form
tōchaku
Original script
到着
LWT meaning(s)
to arrive
Grammatical info
do-support
Analyzability
analyzable compound
Gloss
tō-chaku arrive-arrive
Age
Late Old Japanese [21] (794–1185)
Lexical stratum
kango
Register
General
Numeric frequency
88.1
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
3. perhaps borrowed
Comments
Annotated Chinese texts, 969, in wabun in mid-Muromachi. // This might either be a reanalysis of the Chinese verb dào followed by an aspectual marker, or a Japanese coinage. Modern Mandarin uses dào, dàodá, dàolái.
Source words
Unidentifiable
Chinese
Effect
Coexistence
Salience
present in pre-contact environment
Contact situation
Chinese bilingualism (possible neologism) [21]
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