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How does the archaic 住まう suddenly receive a magical conjugation of ~わる that I've never heard of or seen before in other verbs?
What's the context you found 住まわる in? Are you sure it wasn't a typo or that it's necessarily a conjugation of 住まう? A google search turns up a single post on HiNative saying that it's a synonym for 住んでいる, a single definition from 日本国語大辞典 saying it means 住む, a book excerpt from 1888, and couple blog post where it looks like either a misspelling or an adjective. Outside of that I can't see any evidence of it as a verb in common use or 住まう being conjugated that way.
If わる is indeed a conjugation of う, I think the safest assumption is that it's some grammatical holdover from old Japanese and not a construction that you need to worry about being able to know or use. You can just treat 住まわる like its own word instead of an inflection of another one.
Maybe related, maybe not, but 住まう appears to be reformed spelling of 住まふ.
Understood, I too think it's some old language I randomly stumbled upon.
@お負け犬 While we encourage and applaud your passionate effort to continually ask questions to learn more, it is also important that the people who are willing to help, be provided with more specific contextual information on your questions.
Specifically, what is the context where this second form appears where you stumbled upon?
For effective help from responders, it would be good to link or give a excerpt so we can examine the questions in context. And it helps the others understand your perspective better to offer you meaningful help instead of guessing in the dark. Japanese is a relatively much more contextual language, and without giving context, the possible interpretations of any phrase/sentence expands out quite a bit, yielding less specific answers.Thank you for the lengthy explanation, effort, and guidance. I'll make sure to provide full content next times I ask!
And also, thanks for the resources, they are interesting to read, though probably not something a beginner me can understand fully. Nevertheless, it's interesting history
I just know I won't be using it anytime soon