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May 16, 2023 at 14:42 comment added ninjalj OTOH, there are similar words from Portuguese ending in ão that were imported in Japanese with an ending in an: en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%83%9C%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3#Japanese en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%A5%A6%E8%A2%A2#Japanese en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%BB%BD%E8%A1%AB en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/…
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Feb 5, 2019 at 4:34 comment added DXV I didn't say it "IS" pronounced pan, I said it "WAS". Not sure if this was my source when I made this post, but this site also supports this theory. Quote: "安土桃山時代には「波牟」と書いてパンと読んでました" from uraken.net/language/gogen07.html
Feb 5, 2019 at 4:06 comment added japanese guy 波牟 is pronounced hamo in japanese. not pan or pamu. even 牟 on its own would be bo.
Jul 23, 2018 at 9:04 history answered DXV CC BY-SA 4.0