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| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 4932 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes  Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 1 of 6 13 October 2015 at 7:06pm | IP Logged |
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Are there any Japanese words which start with the letter "P" excluding loanwords?
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4641 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 2 of 6 13 October 2015 at 10:21pm | IP Logged |
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I can't think of many, but that may be because of my low level of Japanese. One word that comes to mind is ペラペラ (perapera), which means "fluent(ly)". However, this is an onomatopoeic word, so it might be a special case.
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| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4569 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 3 of 6 14 October 2015 at 10:29am | IP Logged |
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The Old Japanese p shifted to f in Middle Japanese, which then shifted to h word-initially (technically remaining f in the syllable "fu" and shifting to a subtly different h-sound in palatalized syllables like "hi" and "hyo"). Because of this the only native Japanese words that start with a p-sound are onomatopoeia like ペラペラ, パチパチ (pachipachi, the sound of applause) or ポロポロ (poroporo, the sound of large drops falling).
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| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 4932 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 4 of 6 14 October 2015 at 3:44pm | IP Logged |
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You guys a right. I tried to remember all Digimon names with start with the letter P, and all of them which are based on Japanese language are based on onomatopoeia: Pagumon, Poyomonm, Poromon, Pagumon, Pinamon, Puwamon, etc.
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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4465 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 5 of 6 15 October 2015 at 2:48pm | IP Logged |
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Pokemon
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| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 4932 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 6 of 6 15 October 2015 at 5:37pm | IP Logged |
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The "poke" in "Pokemon" is just a loan word.
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