< Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic
Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/kiru
Proto-Japonic
Etymology
Compare Proto-Mongolic *kira- (“to mince, cut small”), Proto-Tungusic *kire- (“to mince; to be broken off, break off; to gnaw”) and Proto-Turkic *kïr- (“to break, to demolish; to scrape, to shave”).
Verb
*kiru
- to cut
Descendants
- Old Japanese: 切 (ki1ru)
- Japanese: 切る (kiru)
- Proto-Ryukyuan: *kiri
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kikai: 切ゆい (chiyui)
- Kunigami: 切ん (chin)
- Northern Amami-Oshima: 切るり (kiruri)
- Okinawan: 切ーん (chīn)
- Oki-No-Erabu: 切ゅん (kyun)
- Southern Amami-Oshima: 切りゅむっ (kiryum)
- Toku-No-Shima: 切りぃ (kirï)
- Yoron: 切ゅん (kyun)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako: 切 (ksïï)
- Yaeyama: 切ん (kïsun)
- Yonaguni: 切ん (tsun)
- Northern Ryukyuan: