Written and published by Linden Alexander Pentecost on the 2nd of May 2026, but only completed on the 12th of May 2026. This article is completely unrelated to and separate from any and all of my other publications, and no AI was used, it was published in the UK. This article contains 1551 words. 

Recently I have looked into a number of other things about Japanese etymologies, and Japan, which are interesting. As well as examples of polygonal masonry in Japan there are other megalithic sites. Some of these sites such as those around Osaka are thought to connect to the earliest royal dynasties of Japan, with for example there being passage tombs connected to these early royal lines. It is interesting how the Japanese language is thought by some to have come from the Korean peninsula, and we see how ancient Japanese royalty is connected to these passage tomb sites, just as dolmens on the Korean peninsula are connected to their ancient dynasties. Could these megalithic sites link to the linguistic links between Japan and Korea perhaps? This is not to say however that these Japanese megalithic sites are in any way recent, but rather they are certainly in some way associated with early Japanese dynasties who may have later used and adopted them, but who may have only appeared thousands of years after these structures were originally created. Furthermore there are also legends of the Oni in Japan, sometimes-horned, giant creatures, who are considered to be Yokai but not generally as Kami. These Oni are sometimes associated with the Jomon period of Japan, and even with the Jomon cultures, who themselves are associated with shell middens, and who may I think have helped to originate some of Japan's cultural and linguistic mythological themes regarding the sea and ocean. Whilst shell middens are found in many parts of the world, I personally believe that their construction, and the languages and cultural contexts associated with them, are in many cases related, and that they represent some of the most ancient human cultures very often associated with the sea, whether it be the Fomorians in Ireland, or the Jomon and Oni in Japan, for example. There are also a large number of linguistic similarities between the languages of Japan and those of Western Eurasia and elsewhere, many of which I have discussed elsewhere. Here I will discuss some more, with particular focus on connections to Uralic, many other examples of which between Japanese and Finnish and other Uralic languages I have also discussed in other publications. The number of Japanese words that are of Proto-Japonic origin is in some contexts lesser than the combined number of Chinese and later European, especially English, loanwords, but nevertheless it has primarily been these "Japonic" Japanese words which I have been discussing and will do here. The Japanese "sound symbolic language" can be said to consist of another special area of Japanese vocabulary, in a sense independent of the other groups of words. Examples of Japonic words in Japanese, as well as those new examples I discuss below, also include matsu for a pine tree, for example, which I have discussed elsewhere as being similar to Finnish  metsä - "forest" along with many other such word connections between these languages discussed elsewhere. Another example is sakura meaning "cherry tree", also the name of a pink-haired female character from the animé show Naruto, which is absolutely awash with spiritual symbolism. When I first watched Naruto it was akin to seeing a very important group of mythological events and tellings, and spiritual secret and truths, which I have specifically observed in many other mythologies, leaking through into a TV series and into my own consciousness. It is quite profound. Anyway, below are some more etymological connections between Japanese and other languages which I have not discussed elsewhere: 

1. つき, tsuki - “moon”, perhaps distantly related to Finnish kuu - “moon” etc
2. たつ - tatsu, to stand, compare Finnish seisoa - “to stand” and also perhaps Quechua sayay - "to stand".
3. から- kara, shell, compare Finnish kuori etc and Quechua qara and other likely cognates.
4. つち tsuchi - earth, compare Finnish hiekka - “sand” or “gravel” etc and many other possible cognates which I have discussed elsewhere. 
5. ゆき - yuki, snow, compare Indo-European *eyg- "ice" or "frost", Scottish Gaelic eigh etc. 
6. へび - hebi, snake, compare the name of the Scythian goddess Api, with serpents or tentacles instead of legs, and possibly the Egyptian goddess Ipy, and for example Guaraní mbói - “snake” and other cognates I have discussed elsewhere that may connect to this root. Other etymologies of the Japanese word are also possible, including a possible connection to a Chinese word, hanbi referring to a kind of medicine. 
7. およぐ - oyogu swim, compare Finnish uida - to swim and Quechua wayt’ay - “to swim”
8. すう - suu, to suck, compare Finnish suu - “mouth”
9. みみず - mimizu, worm, compare Finnish mato - “worm” and other possible cognates discussed elsewhere. Other origins of mimizu are also possible, including a meaning of "eye-less" in reference to worms not having eyes. 
10. かぜ -  kaze - wind, compare the English words "haze" and "gas", the etymologies of which I have discussed elsewhere.

11. ふく - fuku, to blow, likely onomatopoeic with the original root being "fufu-" but nevertheless comparable to Finnish puhua - "to speak", originally meaning "to blow" perhaps in the sense of "blowing" or "wishing" a protection charm. 

12. きらきら - kirakira - to shine in a sparkling manner, compare Finnish kirkkas - "bright", this word きらきら is an example of Japanese sound symbolic language, arguably an ancient language connected to the spiritual and mythological aspects of ancient Japan, even though it is passed off as just onomatopoeia, this onomatopoeia can instead be thought of as a certain expression of sacred language, using similar principles in some cases to the "sacred language" behind Finnish, hence the similarity.