目

JAPONCA → TR

Tanım

•eye (め, ま, まなこ) · eyesight · main part of something (かなめ)

Etimoloji

⟨me₂⟩ → */məɨ/ → /me/ From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *mai. Cognate with 目(ま) (ma, bound form). Now the modern Japanese term for eye. Probably cognate with 見(み)る (miru, “to see, to look”). May also be cognate with 芽(め) (me, “bud, shoot”), perhaps from the “visually prominent feature” sense, and with suppositional / volitional verb suffix む (mu) (presenting in modern Japanese verb…