Reconstruction talk:Proto-Japonic/mape

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Derivation

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@Kwékwlos, Mellohi!, YukaSylvie, anyone else involved in Proto-Japonic:

Monolingual Japanese resources that list etymology derive (mae, front) from Old Japanese (*mape1), considered to be a compound of Old Japanese (ma, eye, combining form for standalone me2) + (pe1, area, roundabouts; in the direction of, source of the modern directional particle (e)).

If the Ryukyuan branch corroborates the above, shall we add an ===Etymology=== section to the Proto entry here? ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 00:13, 18 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

Unexplained move

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@Chuterix, what is your basis for moving this entry from *mapya to *mapia? ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 20:10, 30 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

proper diphthong Chuterix (talk) 20:18, 30 May 2023 (UTC)Reply
This term is widely regarded as a compound of 目 (ma-, "eye") + 方 (pe₁, "direction"), literally "eyewards".
Proto-Japonic#Vowels shows Proto /e/ correlating to final /e₁/ in OJP. Why do you reconstruct a Proto diphthong for OJP /pe₁/?
(More broadly, please leave informative edit comments -- too many of your edits have no edit comments at all.) ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 21:02, 30 May 2023 (UTC)Reply