< Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan
Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan/kiri
Proto-Ryukyuan
Etymology
From Proto-Japonic *kiru (“to cut”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kiɾi/
Verb
*kiri
- to cut
Descendants
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kikai: 切ゆい (ちゆい, chiyui)
- Kunigami: 切ん (ちん, chin)
- Northern Amami-Oshima: 切るり (きるり, kiruri)
- Okinawan: 切ーん (ちーん, chīn)
- Oki-No-Erabu: 切ゅん (きゅん, kyun)
- Southern Amami-Oshima: 切りゅむっ (きりゅむっ, kiryum)
- Toku-No-Shima: 切りぃ (きりぃ, kirï)
- Yoron: 切ゅん (きゅん, kyun)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako: 切 (きぃー, ksïï)
- Yaeyama: 切ん (きぃすん, kïsun)
- Yonaguni: 切ん (つん, tsun)