Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/tukui

This Proto-Japonic 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-Japonic

Alternative forms

• *tuko- (Thorpe, 1983 p. 355)

Noun

*tukui

1. moon
2. month

Descendants

• Eastern Old Japanese: 都久 (tuku)
• Old Japanese: 月 (tuki₂, tuku)
  • Japanese: 月 (tsuki, tsuku)
• Proto-Ryukyuan: *tuki
  • Northern Ryukyuan:
    • Kikai: 月 (tuchi, tsuki)
    • Kunigami: 月 (shichī, hichī)
    • Northern Amami-Oshima: 月 (tsïki, chiki)
    • Okinawan: 月 (tsichi, chichi)
    • Oki-No-Erabu: 月 (chiki)
    • Southern Amami-Oshima: 月 (θki)
    • Toku-No-Shima: 月 (tsïki)
    • Yoron: 月 (chiki)
  • Southern Ryukyuan:
    • Miyako: 月 (tsïksï, tsïkï)
    • Yaeyama: 月 (tsïkï)
    • Yonaguni: 月 (ttī)

Further reading

• Vovin (2011) p. 221