Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan/nomi

This Proto-Ryukyuan 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-Ryukyuan

Etymology

From Proto-Japonic *nəmu (“to drink”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /nomi/

Verb

*nomi

to drink

Descendants

Northern Ryukyuan: 누미 (numi) (Haytong Ceykwukki, 1501)
- Kikai: 飲みゅい, 呑みゅい (numyui)
- Kunigami: 飲みん, 呑みん (numin)
- Northern Amami-Oshima: 飲むり, 呑むり (numuri)
- Okinawan: 飲むん, 呑むん (numun, nunun)
- Oki-No-Erabu: 飲みゅん, 呑みゅん (numyun)
- Southern Amami-Oshima: 飲みゅむっ, 呑みゅむっ (numyum)
- Toku-No-Shima: 飲み, 呑み (numi)
- Yoron: 飲みゅん, 呑みゅん (numyun)
Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako: 飲むっ, 呑むっ (num)
- Yaeyama: 飲むん, 呑むん (numun)
- Yonaguni: 飲むん, 呑むん (numun)

References

Maner Lawton Thorpe (1983) Ryūkyūan Language History‎, page 280
Chihkai Lin (August 2015) A Reconstruction of Old Okinawan: A Corpus-Based Approach‎, University of Hawaii at Manoa