Re: Origin of IRASHAI?

mirror wrote:
Hello,

On page 191, example D, in "Advanced Spoken Japanese: Tonari no
Shibafu," volume 1, lessons 1-9 of 18, by Katsuhiko Sakuma and
Frank T. Motofuji (Institute for East Asian Studies, University of
California, Berkeley, 1980, ISBN: 0-9129-6623-8), they say
いらっしゃる comes from 来.

来る is one of the lexical *meanings*.

Now, 来 is らい, so is いらっしゃい an い
plus らい plus する?

No.

Or, is 来車 the origin of いらっしゃい?

No.

Or, as usual, am I reading too much into this?

Yes.

(In easy form ignoring roots)
irassyai < irassyaru < iraseraru < iru + se + raru.

Also note the modern verb iraserareru.

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Ben Monroe

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