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Help[Surname] Re: meaning of Tamagusuku
in reply to a message by c. duran
that link does not answer the question completely it leads to another link that says the following;
There is no consensus about the etymology of gusuku. Chamberlain analyzed the word as the combination of gu (< honorific go 御) and shuku (宿). Kanazawa Shōzaburō also segmented gusuku into gu and suku but considered that the latter half was cognate with old mainland Japanese shiki, in which ki was a loan from some Old Korean language. Iha Fuyū proposed that suku was cognate with soko (塞, fortress). Hirata Tsugumasa considered that suku was cognate with mainland Japanese soko (底, bottom).[4]
Higashionna Kanjun raised doubts over the analysis of gu since older records always used honorific u (< o) instead of gu (< go). Nakahara Zenchū identified gu as go (stone)
As for the first part, Tama is easier to find, it means ball, sphere, globe, orb, bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; droplet, something round.
so far that under certain theories that adds to "round spherical stone", but nothing so far is certain, alternatively, "round spherical/semispherical/cylindrical fortress" or "round territory" (a gusuku is a kind of territory).
There is no consensus about the etymology of gusuku. Chamberlain analyzed the word as the combination of gu (< honorific go 御) and shuku (宿). Kanazawa Shōzaburō also segmented gusuku into gu and suku but considered that the latter half was cognate with old mainland Japanese shiki, in which ki was a loan from some Old Korean language. Iha Fuyū proposed that suku was cognate with soko (塞, fortress). Hirata Tsugumasa considered that suku was cognate with mainland Japanese soko (底, bottom).[4]
Higashionna Kanjun raised doubts over the analysis of gu since older records always used honorific u (< o) instead of gu (< go). Nakahara Zenchū identified gu as go (stone)
As for the first part, Tama is easier to find, it means ball, sphere, globe, orb, bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; droplet, something round.
so far that under certain theories that adds to "round spherical stone", but nothing so far is certain, alternatively, "round spherical/semispherical/cylindrical fortress" or "round territory" (a gusuku is a kind of territory).
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