Reconstruction talk:Proto-Japonic/e-ku

@Kwékwlos 幾つ was originally not a single word. It's a compound of 幾(いく) (iku, “some, several”) + つ (tsu, genitive case marker), and 幾(いく) (iku) itself is akin of 如何(いか) (ika, “what kind of”). To lemmatize as this form is not good.--荒巻モロゾフ (talk) 12:28, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

@Kwéklos, ditto what @荒巻モロゾフ said. Compounds are poor choices for reconstructed lemmata.

Derivatives of 幾(いく) (iku) include:

• 幾(いく)つ (ikutsu, “how many”)
• 幾(いく)ら (ikura, “how much”)
• 幾(いく)そ (ikuso, “several tens of something, many, lots”)
• 幾応(いくおう) (ikuō, “however many times”)
• 幾何(いくばく) (ikubaku, “however much”)
• 幾久(いくひさ) (ikuhisa, “however long, however much time”)

As you can probably see, this 幾(いく) (iku) was a productive element in older times, and should thus be treated as its own lemma. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 23:20, 3 June 2019 (UTC)