きゆ

Okinawan

Alternative spelling
今日

Etymology

From Proto-Ryukyuan *keu.

Pronunciation

(Shuri) IPA^(key): [kíjú] (tone class B)

Noun

きゆ

今日: (literary) today
今日(けふ)のほこらしやや / なをにぎやなたてる / つぼでをる花(はな)の / 露(つゆ)きやたごと
kiyu nu fukurashaya / naunigyanatateru / tsibudiwuruhananu / tsiyukyatagutu
What should I compare for today's happiness? Flower buds that meet with dew? (Ryūka by Gujinfū)
- 1531-1623, Omoro Sōshi
  きこゑ大きみきや　けよ　ふらす　あめや　きやのうちみやに　こかね　ふりみちへて
  kikowe-OFOkimi-gya keyo furasu ame-ya kya-no-uchimiya-ni kogane furimichifete
  Well-known Holy Lady, Making the rain fall today
- Nantō Kayō
  きふの　夜や　おどまり／なまの　夜や　おどまり／ねく筵　おわいすら
  kifu-no YUya odomari / nama-no YUya odomari / neku-MUSHIRU owaisura
  Tonight's stop / this night's stop; / I give the thick straw mat.
- Ryūka Zenshū
  けふの　よかる　日に　昔どし　いきやて　嬉しさや　互に　語て遊ば
  kefu-no yokaru FI-ni MUKASHI-doshi ikyate URIshisa-ya TAGĒ-ni KATAteASIba
  On a good today; I went to my past friends; and we were happy together; let's talk and play.
- Kumiodori
  やあ　なし子　けふからの　先や　敵　かたき　と思な
  yā nashiKKWA kefu-kara-no SACHIya KATACHI kataki^[sic] to UMŪna
  Hey, my dear child; from this point on today; don't think about your enemies.
- Konkō Kenshū
  けふ　今日
  Keu. Today.

Descendants

Okinawan: ちゅー (chū)

References

Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyūjo (国立国語研究所) (1963) 沖縄語辞典 (Okinawa-go Jiten) [Dictionary of the Okinawan Language] (in Japanese), Tokyo (東京): Okurashō Insatsu Kyoku (財務省印刷局), pages 21, 320
Okinawa Kogo Daijiten Henshū I'inkai (沖縄古語大辞典編集委員会) (1995) 沖縄古語大辞典 [Dictionary of Archaic Okinawan], Tokyo (東京都): Kadokawa Shoten (角川書店), →ISBN, page 267