Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/wu

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

Verb

*wu

to sit
Antonym: *əku (“to get up, to rise”)

Descendants

Old Japanese: [script needed] (wu, “to sit; to be in a place”)
- Japanese: 居る (iru, oru, “to exist, to have (animate things)”)
Proto-Ryukyuan: *wiri
- Northern Ryukyuan:
  - Kikai: 居ゆい (yiyui, yīyui)
  - Kunigami: 居ん (yun)
  - Northern Amami-Oshima: 居るり (yiruri)
  - Okinawan: 居ん (yiyun)
  - Oki-No-Erabu: 居ん (yun)
  - Southern Amami-Oshima: 居りゅむっ (yiryum)
  - Toku-No-Shima: 居りぃ (ïrï)
  - Yoron: 居ゅん (byun)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
  - Miyako: 居 (bzï)
  - Yaeyama: 居るん (bzïrun)
  - ⇒ Yonaguni: 居とぅるん (nturun) (< *wite + *-yuryun < *-wori womu)