Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan/wata
Proto-Ryukyuan edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Japonic *wata (“entrails, gut, intestine”), with a change in meaning.
Pronunciation edit
- Tone class: B
Noun edit
*wata
Descendants edit
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kikai:
- Aden: 腹 (wata) (tone class AB)
- Araki: 腹 (wata) (tone class AB)
- Kamikatetsu: 腹 (wata) (tone class AB)
- Nakasto: 腹 (wata) (tone class AB)
- Onotsu: 腹 (wata) (tone class BC)
- Sakamine: 腹 (wata) (tone class AB)
- Shiomichi: 腹 (wata) (tone class AB)
- Shitōke: 腹 (wata) (tone class BC)
- Wan: 腹 (wata) (tone class AB)
- Kunigami:
- Nakijin: 腹 (watā) (tone class B)
- Northern Amami-Oshima:
- Okinawan:
- Oki-No-Erabu:
- Southern Amami-Oshima:
- Koniya: 腹 (wata)
- Toku-No-Shima:
- Yoron: 腹 (wata) (tone class B)
- Kikai:
- Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako:
- Yaeyama:
- Yonaguni: 腹 (bata) (tone class B)