Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan/pe

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 *pya (“flatus, fart”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pe/

Noun

*pe

flatus, fart

Descendants

Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kikai: 屁 (pïï)
- Kunigami: 屁 (pī)
- Northern Amami-Oshima: 屁 (fï, fïï)
- Okinawan: 屁 (fī)
- Oki-No-Erabu: 屁 (hī)
- Southern Amami-Oshima: 屁 (fï, fïï)
- Toku-No-Shima: 屁 (fïï, fuï)
- Yoron: 屁 (pī)
Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako: 屁 (pī)
- Yaeyama: 屁 (pī)
- Yonaguni: 屁 (hī)

References

Maner Lawton Thorpe (1983) Ryūkyūan Language History‎, page 287