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Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/ariku
Proto-Japonic
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Likely a mistaken reconstruction -- see Talk.”)
Thorpe suggests that this is possibly a compound of *ari (“to exist”) + *iku (“to go”),[1] but this is problematic on both semantic and phonological grounds.
Verb
*ariku
- to walk
Descendants
- Old Japanese: 歩 (ariku, aruku)
- Japanese: 歩く (aruku)
- Proto-Ryukyuan: *ariki
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kikai: 歩きゅい (akkyui)
- Kunigami: 歩ちゅん (acchun)
- Northern Amami-Oshima: 歩くり (akkuri)
- Okinawan: 歩ちゅん (acchun)
- Oki-No-Erabu: 歩きゅん (akkyun)
- Southern Amami-Oshima: 歩きゅむっ (akkyum, arkyum)
- Toku-No-Shima: 歩き (akki)
- Yoron: 歩きゅん (aikyun)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako: 歩きぃ (azksï)
- Yaeyama: 歩ぐん (aragun, arugun)
- Yonaguni: 歩ぐん (aigun)
- Northern Ryukyuan:
References
- Maner Lawton Thorpe (1983) Ryūkyūan Language History, page 249