日语语源学研究

Research on Japanese Etymology

从日语词汇的读音和词义等入手,主要运用语源学和实证调查的研究方法,利用日语词汇所具有的形、义、音的特征,重点调查其语音内部构造,即从根源方面寻找到它的规律。通过研究发现,日语训读的语源主要由读音这一因素构成,一个词的读音往往会由两个或两个以上的词的读音经过借言、通言、约言、略言、延言、合言等变化而形成,词义亦大都是由语源词派生出来,基本上可以从原词推断而出。

This paper, starting with the pronunciation and meaning of Japanese vocabulary, mainly employs the etymology and empirical survey methods, and makes use of the characteristics of form, meaning, and pronunciationin Japanese vocabulary, to study the internal structure of Japanese pronunciation, i. e. to explore the rules from its etymologic roots. It is found that the etymology of Japanese Kundoku comes from is often defined by pronunciation and the pronunciation of a word is often obtained through borrowing, transforming, clipping, abbreviating, lengthening and combining the pronunciations of two or more words. The meanings of words mostly derive from source words and can be deduced from their original words.