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Also, no evidence of aigratou being used in the -u from before the Portuguese arrived. It may be true that the similarity is purely a coincidence, but the evide
by jansan 3y ago
Also, no evidence of aigratou being used in the -u from before the Portuguese arrived. It may be true that the similarity is purely a coincidence, but the evidence is very weak, and maybe without Portuguese influence ariɡatau would be used only in some fringe cases.
- Tor3 3y agohttps://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=52018 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=52018 - it was used more than a century before the Portuguese arrived.
- vore 3y agoFrankly, I don't think you understand Japanese morphology at all and are blowing a whole load of hot air. The inflection of arigatashi -> arigatou is quite straightforward and any adjective in Japanese can undergo the same inflection: - arigatashi -> arigatai: modernization - arigatai -> arigataku: adverbalization - arigataku -> arigatau -> arigatou: u-onbin It would perhaps also help your case if you didn't misspell "arigatou" twice in your post, either.