Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/kora
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Proto-Japonic
[edit]Reconstruction
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Derivationally, appears to be a compound of *ko (“child”) + *-ra (pluralizing and generalizing suffix). Compare a similar semantic shift in modern Japanese 子供 (kodomo), which was originally a plural and shifted to a singular.
Noun
[edit]*kora