Re: Casual / Respectful form of family member words
It seems to me I heard somewhere that Ben Finney wrote in article
<dhvehl$hmk$1@rose.polar.local>:
>In sci.lang.japan, Bart Mathias <mathias@hawaii.edu> wrote:
>> Ben Finney wrote:
>> > It may help to know that the "honorific お" (お母さん, お弁当) and
>> > the "honorific ご" (ご主人, ごはん) both come from the kanji 御.
>> "Come from"? How could a pure Japanese form come from a kanji?
>Touche. "[...] both were formerly written with the kanji 御".
In which case you might as well have included "mi."
御願いします 【おねがいします】
御機嫌 【ごきげん】
御輿 【みこし】
and
御意 【ぎょい】
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Don Kirkman
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