Proto-Ryukyuan
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Alternative reconstructions
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Etymology
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From Proto-Japonic *kəpa (“hard”).
Adjective
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*kowa
- hard
Descendants
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- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kikai: 強さい (fubasai)
- Kunigami: 強ーせん (fupāsen)
- Northern Amami-Oshima: 強さり (xohasari)
- Okinawan: 強さん (kufasan)
- Oki-No-Erabu: 強さん (fāsan)
- Southern Amami-Oshima: 強ーさむっ (kwahāsam)
- Toku-No-Shima: 強さい (xuwasai)
- Yoron: 強さん (fupasan)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako: 強 (kupa)
- Yaeyama: 強さん (kōsan)
- Yonaguni: 強ん (kwan), 強ーん (kwān)
References
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- Thorpe, Maner Lawton (1983) Ryūkyūan Language History[1], Doctoral dissertation. University of Southern California, pages 293-294
- Martin, Samuel E. (1987) The Japanese Language Through Time, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 833