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"text": "Old Japanese: 十 (to₂wo)"
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"text": "Japanese: 十 (tō)"
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"2": "*towo"
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"expansion": "Proto-Ryukyuan: *towo\nNorthern Ryukyuan:\nKikai: 十 (θū)\nKunigami: 十 (thū)\nNorthern Amami-Oshima: 十 (θū)\nOkinawan: 十 (tū)\nOki-No-Erabu: 十 (tū)\nSouthern Amami-Oshima: 十 (tū)\nToku-No-Shima: 十 (tū)\nYoron: 十 (tū)\nSouthern Ryukyuan:\nMiyako: 十 (tū)\nYaeyama: 十 (tū)\nYonaguni: 十 (tū)",
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"text": "Proto-Ryukyuan: *towo\nNorthern Ryukyuan:\nKikai: 十 (θū)\nKunigami: 十 (thū)\nNorthern Amami-Oshima: 十 (θū)\nOkinawan: 十 (tū)\nOki-No-Erabu: 十 (tū)\nSouthern Amami-Oshima: 十 (tū)\nToku-No-Shima: 十 (tū)\nYoron: 十 (tū)\nSouthern Ryukyuan:\nMiyako: 十 (tū)\nYaeyama: 十 (tū)\nYonaguni: 十 (tū)"
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"1": "Ono (1970)"
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"etymology_text": "Possibly cognate with Goguryeo 德 (*tək).\nAccording to Ono (1970), related to *tawa or *təwə (“bend”) from the common hand-counting method of showing the number 10 by bending all fingers over the bent thumb, although this is rejected by Miller (1971), who instead proposed a relationship with Proto-Tungusic *ʒuban (“ten”).\nHowever, the Altaic hypothesis is nowadays widely rejected, so the Tungusic comparison remains unlikely.",
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"original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/təwə",
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"name": "Proto-Japonic entries with incorrect language header",
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"text": "Proto-Ryukyuan: *towo\nNorthern Ryukyuan:\nKikai: 十 (θū)\nKunigami: 十 (thū)\nNorthern Amami-Oshima: 十 (θū)\nOkinawan: 十 (tū)\nOki-No-Erabu: 十 (tū)\nSouthern Amami-Oshima: 十 (tū)\nToku-No-Shima: 十 (tū)\nYoron: 十 (tū)\nSouthern Ryukyuan:\nMiyako: 十 (tū)\nYaeyama: 十 (tū)\nYonaguni: 十 (tū)"
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