Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan/no
Proto-Ryukyuan edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Japonic *nə (“genitive case marker”).
Particle edit
*no
- nominative and genitive case marker
Usage notes edit
Ryukyuan languages use a hierarchy to determine which of its nominative and genitive markers, *ga and *no, to use. This hierarchy has two layers, consisting of higher and lower layers.[1]
- The higher nominative and genitive marker is *ga, used primarily by pronouns referring to humans.
- The lower nominative and genitive marker is *no, used by any nominals that do not use *ga.
This hierarchy is subject to much variation in the daughter languages. In Northern Amami-Ōshima, genitive *ga is only used with demonstrative pronouns, while personal pronouns, names of humans, and kinship terms do not take any genitive marker, while Yaeyama lost its reflex of *ga altogether.
Descendants edit
- Northern Ryukyuan: 노 (/no/) (Haytong Ceykwukki, 1501)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Pellard, Thomas (2018) “Ryukyuan and the reconstruction of proto-Japanese-Ryukyuan”, in Handbook of Japanese historical linguistics, De Gruyter Mouton.