Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan/sake

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Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan/sake

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 *sakay (“rice wine, rice vodka, sake”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sake/

Noun

*sake[1]

1. rice wine, rice vodka, sake

Descendants

• Northern Ryukyuan: 사긔 (sakɨi) (Haytong Ceykwukki, 1501)[2]
  • Kikai: 酒 (sē)
  • Kunigami: 酒 (saki)
  • Northern Amami-Oshima: 酒 (sehe)[1]
  • Okinawan: 酒 (saki)[1]
  • Oki-No-Erabu: 酒 (sagi)
  • Southern Amami-Oshima: 酒 (sïhëe)
  • Toku-No-Shima: 酒 (shakɨɨ)[1]
  • Yoron: 酒 (sai)[1]
• Southern Ryukyuan: *sake (Robbeets, 2021)[1]
  • Miyako: 酒 (saki)[1]
  • Yaeyama: 酒 (saki)[1]
  • Yonaguni: 酒 (sagi)[1]

References

1. Martine Robbeets (2021) Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages‎ - see 25Eurasia3anglesynthesisSI5eJaponic.xlsx
2. Chihkai Lin (August 2015) A Reconstruction of Old Okinawan: A Corpus-Based Approach‎, University of Hawaii at Manoa