高橋 Haruka :saitama: on Nostr: Come to think of it, the way 今日 turned from けふ to きょう is umm… Well, I ...
Come to think of it, the way 今日 turned from けふ to きょう is umm…
Well, I think of this place named 越前武生 (Echizen Takefu), where ふ is an unusual way of reading 生, but it’s a historical reading that is now う. It’s like how many words that used to use ゐゑを using いえお respectively instead.
So now we get けう. Quite a strain to read that out, so け became きょ.
Well, I think of this place named 越前武生 (Echizen Takefu), where ふ is an unusual way of reading 生, but it’s a historical reading that is now う. It’s like how many words that used to use ゐゑを using いえお respectively instead.
So now we get けう. Quite a strain to read that out, so け became きょ.