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Jun 17, 2020 at 8:18 history edited CommunityBot
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Mar 20, 2020 at 20:55 comment added Eiríkr Útlendi @Ringil, doh! Intended URL: kotobank.jp/word/き-471819 Cheers!
Mar 20, 2020 at 18:20 comment added Ringil @EiríkrÚtlendi That isn't a link to Kotobank but that was still very enlightening. Thanks for sharing this!
Mar 20, 2020 at 18:00 comment added Eiríkr Útlendi This derivation may also explain why auxiliary き has no attested 連用形, and if auxiliary き is indeed from verb 来【く】, we also have an elegant solution to the derivation of related "reported past" auxiliary けり.
Mar 20, 2020 at 17:57 comment added Eiríkr Útlendi Regarding the inflections of auxiliary き and the verb stems it attaches to, the Kotobank page has good detail: see the 大辞泉 entry at top, also that entry's [補説] section; and the 日本国語大辞典 entry at bottom, also the [語誌] section. TL;DR: the き forms starting with //k// are probably from ancient verb 来【く】, and the き forms starting with //s// from ancient verb す. Notably, the auxiliary's 終止形 of き never attaches to verb 来【く】 at all, and 連体形 form し and 已然形 form しか never attach to 連用形 form し of verb す, which patterns seem consistent with the theorized origins.
Mar 20, 2020 at 11:54 history edited Ringil CC BY-SA 4.0
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Mar 20, 2020 at 4:57 comment added Alice B. Rabbit Thank you, this was very helpful!
Mar 20, 2020 at 4:20 history answered Ringil CC BY-SA 4.0