< Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan
Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan/ma
Proto-Ryukyuan
Etymology
From Proto-Japonic *ma (“room, space”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma/
Noun
*ma
- room, space
Descendants
Now used as an affix in the modern descendants.
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kikai: 間 (ま, ma)
- Kunigami: 間 (ま, ma)
- Northern Amami-Oshima: 間 (ま, ma)
- Okinawan: 間 (ま, ma)
- Oki-No-Erabu: 間 (ま, ma)
- Southern Amami-Oshima: 間 (ま, ma)
- Toku-No-Shima: 間 (ま, ma)
- Yoron: 間 (ま, ma)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako: 間 (ま, ma)
- Yaeyama: 間 (ま, ma)
- Yonaguni: 間 (ま, ma)