(linguistics) the theory that Old Japanese had eight vowels: /a/, /i₁/, /i₂/, /u/, /e₁/, /e₂/, /o/.

thesis; dissertation; article

write; record (words, figures) on the surface of (something) / compose; put (an idea, etc) into words

conjunctive form of 書く

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

theory

theory / explanation

(obsolete, phonology) one of the five morae of the あ行 (agyō, “a-row”), that consists solely of a vowel / (phonetics, phonology) a vowel