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Fair; though I didn't say it's impossible, just unlikely :) Japanese words starting with "p" still exist, but they tend to be loanwords (pokemon = pocket + mon
by shiomiru 2y ago
Fair; though I didn't say it's impossible, just unlikely :)
Japanese words starting with "p" still exist, but they tend to be loanwords
(pokemon = pocket + monster) or onomatopoeia (pachinko = pachin + ko).
Thinking of it now, pokapoka is also a word, but again, an onomatopoeia.
- thih9 2y agoI thought of Pocky, but turns out this is an onomatopoeia too > It was named after the Japanese onomatopoeic word pokkiri (ポッキリ), which is supposed to resemble the sound of the snack being cracked. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocky https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocky
- latentsea 2y agoWhat about パクリ? and ぽっかり?
- naniwaduni 2y agoThose belong to the "onomatopoeic" stratum; you can form e.g. ぱくり・ぱっくり・ぱくぱく・ぱくっと.