On 2012-04-10, at 10:33 PM, Brandon Kentel wrote:
Re: 得
Where do you find reference to it using ワ行 sounds? Looking through any
text that uses 歴史仮名遣い, it's clearly used as:
得（う） （ア行下二段）
未 え
用 え
終 う
体 うる
已 うれ
命 えよ
There is nothing special about it per se other than it being one mora
long (see: 寝（ぬ） and 経（ふ）)
I didn't say that 得 uses ワ行. Please check that email again.
Re: かり
Again, it's not really a special conjugation form but derives (as many
things do in old Japanese) from あり; in this case a contraction of ～
く+あり:
良し → 良く あり → 良かり ＝ ラ変
Does it really need its own special form?
I have no idea. But it goes without saying that あり is a verb, whereas 多かり is called an adjective by Japanese dictionaries. Since it would therefore be "wrong" to call 多かり a verb, I can't see a reason not to have a PoS for adj-kari.