Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/ariku
Proto-Japonic edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Likely a mistaken reconstruction -- see Talk.”)
Thorpe suggests that this is possibly a compound of *ari (“to exist”) + *iku (“to go”),[1] but this is problematic on both semantic and phonological grounds.
Verb edit
*ariku
- to walk
Descendants edit
- Old Japanese: 歩く (ariku, aruku)
- Japanese: 歩く (aruku)
- Proto-Ryukyuan: *ariki
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Southern Ryukyuan: