Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan/yowa

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 *yowa (“weak”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /jowa/

Adjective

*yowa

weak

Descendants

Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kikai: 弱さい (yuwasai)
- Kunigami: 弱せん (yōsen)
- Northern Amami-Oshima: 弱さり (yowasari)
- Okinawan: 弱さん (yōsan)
- Oki-No-Erabu: 弱さん (yūsan)
- Southern Amami-Oshima: 弱さむっ (yuwāsam, yiwāsam)
- Toku-No-Shima: 弱さい (yuwasai)
- Yoron: 弱さん (yuwasan)
Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako: 弱 (yū)
- Yaeyama: 弱さん (yōsan)
- Yonaguni: 弱ん (duwan)

References

Maner Lawton Thorpe (1983) Ryūkyūan Language History‎, pages 345-346
Martin, Samuel E. (1987) The Japanese Language Through Time, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 845