Re: Reading or euphonic change?

jwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Paul Blay <ask_me_or_get_spam_trapped@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
>
>>I was just wondering what the logic was behind 火 having a
>>reading of -び in kanjidic (and presumably other dictionaries)
>>but 人 not having a reading of びと.
>
>
> Dunno about logic. Much of the early population of readings
> in kanjidic came from popular 漢和辞典. One such, the Classic Nelson,
> has -bi as a reading for 火, but not -bito for 人.
>
> I guess old Andrew was trying to point out that when 火 was in
> a later position in a word, it was read び, not ひ. (In one case at
> least, 天火, it can be read ぴ.) But AFAICT the same goes for
> 人 & びと.

And ぴと.

I had a friend who used to quote somebody downplaying consistency, but
now I'm old and can't remember it anymore. As I recall it *meant*
something like only fools would get hung up on it.

Bart


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