Reconstruction talk:Proto-Japonic/əku

Reconstruction

@Mellohi! -- modern 起(お)きる (okiru) is from ancient 上二段活用 verb おく. See also https://kotobank.jp/word/起きる-451650. The various 上一段・上二段・下一段・下二段 verb conjugation patterns all suggest a kind of defective paradigm shift, visible still in some modern verbs, where the altered conjugation pattern carried some kind of semantic information -- most commonly still visible as a shift in transitivity, c.f. つく・つける, あく・あける, つよむ・つよめる, etc. Considering this verb's root form of おく, I don't think we can reconstruct a proto-Japonic form of /əkəi-/. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 23:48, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

I concur, this should belong to PJ *oku. Kwékwlos (talk) 05:45, 3 March 2020 (UTC)