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

thesis; dissertation; article

conjunctive form of 書く

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

theory

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

the eighth day of the month / eight days

eight, 8