Timeline for Are 短（い） and 身近（い・な） related?
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| Sep 2, 2013 at 15:58 | vote | accept | istrasci | ||
| Jun 24, 2013 at 19:41 | comment | added | Zhen Lin | You can read about it on Wikipedia. 短い (or rather, 短くて) is attested in the Tale of Genji, so presumably they have taken the spelling from there. | |
| Jun 24, 2013 at 19:37 | comment | added | Earthliŋ♦ | Thanks, that is very interesting. Do you have any sources, or at least a name, for this reform? Presumably in your answer you assume that this reform didn't overlook みじかい... | |
| Jun 24, 2013 at 19:28 | comment | added | Zhen Lin | Well, more precisely, there was a spelling reform in the Meiji era which restored spellings to etymological ones. Before that things were more haphazard. | |
| Jun 24, 2013 at 19:21 | comment | added | Earthliŋ♦ | Does that mean that up to the spelling reform in 1946, all spellings respected the etymological origin of a word? | |
| Jun 24, 2013 at 18:48 | history | answered | Zhen Lin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |