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Yonaguni
Etymology
From Proto-Ryukyuan *mizo, from Proto-Japonic *minsə.
Various sources record different variations of the word:
Pronunciation
- (Sonai) IPA(key): (tone class A)
- (Sonai) IPA(key): (tone class A)
Noun
みどぅ (midu)
- 溝: ditch
- うぶあみ ふいんがしや むたぬんがら みどぅ さらいうとぅぎー
- ubuami fuingashiya mutanungara midu saraiutugī
- Since (there is trouble/lit. if it rains, we cannot hold it), get up and (clean it/lit. sweep it into the ditch).
References
- Hōsei Daigaku Okinawa Bunka Kenkyūjo (法政大学沖縄文化研究所) (1987) “琉球の方言１１巻：八重山・与那国島 [Ryukyuan Dialects 11: Yonaguni-jima, Yaeyama]”, in Ryūkyū no Hōgen (琉球の方言), volume 11, →DOI, pages 01-359
- Miyanaga, Masamori (宮良当壮) (1930) 八重山語彙 [Vocabulary List of the Yaeyama languages], Tokyo (東京都): Tōyō Bunko (東洋文庫), →DOI, page 260
- Yonaguni Hōgen Jiten Henshū I'inkai (与那国方言辞典編集委員会) (2021) どぅなんむぬい辞典 [Dunanmunui Dictionary], Yonaguni (与那国町): Yonaguni-chō Kyōiku I'inkai (与那国町教育委員会), page X