< Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan
Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan/tuna
Proto-Ryukyuan
Etymology
From Proto-Japonic *tuna (“rope”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tuna/
Noun
*tuna
- rope
Descendants
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kunigami: 綱 (ちなー, chinā)
- Northern Amami-Oshima: 綱 (つぃな, tsïna)
- Okinawan: 綱 (ちな, china)
- Oki-No-Erabu: 綱 (ちなー, chinā)
- Southern Ryukyuan
- Miyako: 綱 (つぃな, tsïna)
- Yaeyama: 綱 (つぃな, tsïna)
- Yonaguni: 綱 (んな, nna)