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16 septembre 2023
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Huisu Yun, « Earth or earthwork? », The Bay of Marifu, ID : 10.58079/r8si
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Vovin (2009: 135–136) claims that Old Japanese tuti "earth" is a loanword from Korean; he reconstructs Proto-Korean *twùnté "earth". While I agree that tuti is a Korean loanword, I have to point out that probably neither the Korean nor the Japanese word had "earth" as its original meaning. First of all, the Proto-Korean word is recovered from the likes of Late Middle Korean twutulk "embankment" and twuticwuy "mole" (the animal), the latter of which is supposed to be from *twute-cwuy (lit. ...