Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/ari

This Proto-Japonic 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-Japonic

Alternative reconstructions

*ami
*ani

Noun

*ari

ant

Descendants

Old Japanese: 蟻 (ari)
- Japanese: 蟻 (ari)
Proto-Ryukyuan: *ari
- Northern Ryukyuan:
  - Kikai: 蟻 (anī, ānī)
  - Kunigami: 蟻 (ai)
  - Northern Amami-Oshima: 蟻 (ami)
  - Okinawan: 蟻 (ai, ayā) (< *ari, *ariwa)
  - Oki-No-Erabu: 蟻 (ani)
  - Southern Amami-Oshima: 蟻 (an)
  - Toku-No-Shima: 蟻 (anï, ari)
  - Yoron: 蟻 (anku) (< *aniko)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
  - Miyako: 蟻 (āz)
  - Yaeyama: 蟻 (āra) (< *ariwa)
  - Yonaguni: 蟻 (aya) (< *ariwa)

Etymology 2

Speculatively, compare Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hásti (“to be”), Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti (“to be”).

Verb

*ari (infinitive *ari, attributive *aru)

to exist, to be
to have

Descendants

Old Japanese: 有 (ari)
- Japanese: 有る (aru)
Proto-Ryukyuan: *ari
- Northern Ryukyuan:
  - Kunigami: 有ん (an)
  - Okinawan: 有ん (an)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
  - Miyako: 有ーㇲ゙ (āz)
  - Yaeyama: 有ん (an)
  - Yonaguni: 有ん (an)