Search 'hapax legomenon' + 'Old Japanese'.LinguistCat wrote: ↑20 Oct 2018 09:00I was hoping there is a list (even a partial one) somewhere, since for the most part, if i know the word is attested I can probably find out the meaning. But I do need to know the word exists, which I can't do by looking at the modern language and going backward. I'd even take words that have changed meanings drastically over time, but with work I can track those down myself.GrandPiano wrote: ↑20 Oct 2018 06:28Are you asking if there’s a place where you can look up the meanings of such words, or if there’s a list of such words?LinguistCat wrote: ↑20 Oct 2018 03:48 Is there a way to find words that were known to exist in Classical/Old Japanese through texts, but don't have descendants in the modern language? Or other older languages?
Among other things, I found this doing so, which, if it isn't what you want, may point you to more of what you're agschully looking for:
https://books.google.com/books?id=Eoqv_ ... se&f=false
hapax legomenon is great, super useful little phrase.