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「瀧」。so(滝)。

somedium
Both dictionaries explicitly identify so as a waterfall. The Japanese 瀧 supports that sense over the homonymous floor, exposed rock and grammatical words. So is retained as the modern comparison; soo tests the source’s length mark without asserting historical phonemic vowel length.
Tamura 1996 s.v. so「滝。… / (一人言で)…しよう、 …しようかな。… / (語構成の要素として)借財、 借り。… / (語構成の要素として、 平らで広がりのある場所を表す。… / 座、 座れるようにしてある床(ゆか)、 敷物を敷いてある床(ゆか)。…」; Batchelor 1938 s.v. So「n. Bare rocks As:—Sho ya, "rocky land." "A place of rocks." / n. A waterfall. / adj. Very. Truly. / n. The floor of a house. As:— So ita, “boards laid upon the floor of a house.” So kara, “to put a house in order.” So ka… / n. Bare rocks. Also sho. As:— So-ya, “rocky land.” “A place of rocks.” / n. Crater. The fire bed upon a hearth. / n. Loss. As:— So no ki. “to lose in business.” / adj. True. Syn: Son. So ne.」, PDF p.482Source passage
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