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Hunting down the similar words between Japanese and Turkish

2 points by ugurnot 4y ago

jmillikin 4y ago
> I think, for some of the words I will share with you at the end, > there is a high likelihood of those words having Chinese roots > rather than Japanese. A rough (but not perfect) way to decide if a Japanese term is derived from Chinese is that it is composed of two or more kanji. Often you'll see a single-kanji word with Japanese pronunciation, and the same kanji in a compound use the Chinese pronunciation. Examples from the article include 「感情」 (kan-jou), 「同士」 (dou-shi), 「反射」 (han-sha). I'd also be careful about using jisho.org as a source without cross-checking to make sure you got the correct meaning. Some of the examples given in OP are wrong, for example 「同士」 is a suffix used to indicate a relationship is mutual -- 同僚 (coworker) + 同士 = 同僚同士 (coworkers) -- and 「大きい」 means "large", not "a lot" (which would be 「多い」 (oo-i).
- ugurnot 4y ago
  Thanks for the input, I was not sure about the 「大きい」either, it is better to remove it. However, for doushi, there is another noun「同志」. Is「同志」a suffix too?
  - jmillikin 4y ago
    I've never seen 「同志」 used in real life. It seems to be a specialized term comparable to English's "comrade". Wikipedia thinks the Turkish equivalent is "yoldaş". For the differences between two Japanese words with the same pronunciation and similar meaning, Yahoo Answers is a surprisingly good resource. You can also do web searches like [[ 「同志」と「同士」の違い ]] to find explanation pages. In general homophonic kanji is an area that even native speakers struggle with sometimes, so there's lots of non-English coverage available. https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1012766135 https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q10... "「同志」と「同士」の意味の違いについて教えてください。"

2 points by ugurnot 4y ago

> I think, for some of the words I will share with you at the end, > there is a high likelihood of those words having Chinese roots > rather than Japanese. A rough (but not perfect) way to decide if a Japanese term is derived from Chinese is that it is composed of two or more kanji. Often you'll see a single-kanji word with Japanese pronunciation, and the same kanji in a compound use the Chinese pronunciation. Examples from the article include 「感情」 (kan-jou), 「同士」 (dou-shi), 「反射」 (han-sha). I'd also be careful about using jisho.org as a source without cross-checking to make sure you got the correct meaning. Some of the examples given in OP are wrong, for example 「同士」 is a suffix used to indicate a relationship is mutual -- 同僚 (coworker) + 同士 = 同僚同士 (coworkers) -- and 「大きい」 means "large", not "a lot" (which would be 「多い」 (oo-i).

ugurnot 4y ago
Thanks for the input, I was not sure about the 「大きい」either, it is better to remove it. However, for doushi, there is another noun「同志」. Is「同志」a suffix too?
- jmillikin 4y ago
  I've never seen 「同志」 used in real life. It seems to be a specialized term comparable to English's "comrade". Wikipedia thinks the Turkish equivalent is "yoldaş". For the differences between two Japanese words with the same pronunciation and similar meaning, Yahoo Answers is a surprisingly good resource. You can also do web searches like [[ 「同志」と「同士」の違い ]] to find explanation pages. In general homophonic kanji is an area that even native speakers struggle with sometimes, so there's lots of non-English coverage available. https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1012766135 https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q10... "「同志」と「同士」の意味の違いについて教えてください。"