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Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan/yowa

This Proto-Ryukyuan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Ryukyuan

Etymology

From Proto-Japonic *yowa (“weak”).

Adjective

*yowa

  1. weak

Descendants
  • Northern Ryukyuan:
    • Kikai: 弱さい (yuwasai)
    • Kunigami: 弱せん (yōsen)
    • Northern Amami-Oshima: 弱さり (yowasari)
    • Okinawan: 弱さん (yōsan)
    • Oki-No-Erabu: 弱さん (yūsan)
    • Southern Amami-Oshima: 弱さむっ (yuwāsam, yiwāsam)
    • Toku-No-Shima: 弱い (yuwai)
    • Yoron: 弱さん (yuwasan)
  • Southern Ryukyuan:
    • Miyako: 弱 (yū)
    • Yaeyama: 弱さん (yōsan)
    • Yonaguni: 弱ん (duwan)

References
  • Thorpe, Maner Lawton (1983) Ryūkyūan Language History‎, Doctoral dissertation. University of Southern California, pages 345-346
  • Martin, Samuel E. (1987) The Japanese Language Through Time, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 845
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