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Like 二人(futari), despite its etymology, furigana notations for this word tend not to use mono-ruby by attaching kana to each kanji (一人), but group-ruby by attaching all the kana to all the kanji as a whole (一人).
樫の實の(kasi no2 mi2 no2), pillow word that can allude to pi1to2ri
Etymology 2
Two possible derivations:
From 一(pi1-, short form of pi1to2, “one, 1”) + 人(-tari, counter for persons). However, pi1- was never attested as a short form of pi1to2 until the Middle Japanese stage.
Alternatively, a shift from 一(pi1to2, “one, 1”) + 人(-tari, counter for persons):
⟨pi1to2 tari⟩ → */pʲit̚tari/ → ⟨pi1dari⟩
Given the shift of -ta to -da due to rendaku (連濁), the second derivation seems likely.
Emi1si wo pi1dari momo na pi1to2 pi1to2 pa ipe2do2 mo tamukapi1 mo sezu
A single Emishi is worth a hundred men, so they say, yet they did not resist.
References
^ Paula Doe, Yakamochi Ōtomo (1982) A Warbler's Song in the Dusk: The Life and Work of Ōtomo Yakamochi (718-785), illustrated edition, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 31
^ Jin'ichi Konishi (2017) Nicholas Teele, transl., Earl Roy Miner, editor, A History of Japanese Literature, Volume 1: The Archaic and Ancient Ages (Princeton Legacy Library), Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 145