平良
Japanese edit
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 平 | 良 |
| たい Grade: 3 |
ら Grade: 4 |
| yutōyomi | |
Etymology 1 edit
Proper noun edit
- a surname
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
- Hirara (place name in Miyakojima, Okinawa, Japan)
References edit
- ^ “ひらら 【平良】”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)
[1] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here (Note: Dialectal meanings, etymological theories, pronunciation including modern, dialectal, and historical information, Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, historical dictionaries containing this word, and the kanji spellings in those dictionaries have been omitted.)
Miyako edit
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 平 | 良 |
| Grade: 3 | Grade: 4 |
Etymology edit
From Proto-Ryukyuan *pirara (compare Japanese 平良 (Hirara) and 岩 (pïshi, “rock”)), from Proto-Japonic *pira (“slope”)[1] (possibly related to *piri (“rock”)).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
平良 (Psïsara)
- Hirara (place name in Miyakojima, Okinawa, Japan)
References edit
- ^ Pellard, Thomas. "A (more) comparative approach to some Japanese etymologies." Studies in Japanese and Korean historical and theoretical linguistics and beyond (2017): 55-64.