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chapatsu

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2018 9:31 pm
by Pabappa
Japanese 茶髪 /chapatsu/

Are there any other words where a morpheme appears with /p/ rather than expected /b/ or /h/, despite not following a closed syllable?

(Besides recent loans and onomatopoeia)

Re: chapatsu

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2018 11:10 pm
by Vijay

Re: chapatsu

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 3:58 am
by Estav
Vijay wrote: ↑Tue Oct 23, 2018 11:10 pm ぱったり
Is that an ideophone? I thought the use of /p/ in those was considered a somewhat "regular" exception to the usual rules for the distribution of /p/ in Japanese vocabulary.

I don't speak or study Japanese, so I probably shouldn't speculate like this, but I'm tempted to guess that the use of /p/ in 茶髪 could be related via analogy to the regular use of /p/ in 金髪 kinpatsu "blond" and 銀髪 ginpatsu "silver hair". Those are two other hair colors listed in the Wiktionary page for 髪.

Re: chapatsu

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 7:25 am
by Vijay
You know better than I do. :)