Bungler on Nostr: gav funniest thing I find about reconstructed old Japanese is ha is thought to have ...
gav (nprofile…f6e6) funniest thing I find about reconstructed old Japanese is ha is thought to have been pronounced as pa as old, meaning はは, mother, would have been pronounced as ぱぱ.
This sort of thing isn't that unusual -- iirc the Hindi word for uncle is "mama". Family relational names are thought to derived heavily from baby-talk, the sort of sounds that v young children have an easy time forming. So oft we end up with the same baby-talk derived collections of sounds arising but meaning different things in different languages.
This sort of thing isn't that unusual -- iirc the Hindi word for uncle is "mama". Family relational names are thought to derived heavily from baby-talk, the sort of sounds that v young children have an easy time forming. So oft we end up with the same baby-talk derived collections of sounds arising but meaning different things in different languages.