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Okinawan
Etymology
Literally "world (era) Yamato (Japan) ".
Attested in the Nantō Kayō under the spellings やまとぅゆー and やまとよ.
Pronunciation
- (Shuri) IPA(key): (tone class BC)
Noun
やまとぅゆー (yamatuyū)
- 大和世: an era following Japan control of the Ryukyu Islands and the abolition of feudal domains until the United States Armed Forces occupation of the islands in World War II
- Coordinate term: 沖縄世 (uchināyū, “an era before Japan control”)
- Nantō Kayō
なまがゆーや やまとぅゆー ／ やまとぅゆー かみがゆー むすでぃ ／ しまさかい くにさかい- namagayūya yamatuyū / yamatuyū kamigayū musudi / shimazakai kunizakai
- Our current era is a Yamato era; / unite the Yamato era and the era of gods together; / the island prospers; the land prospers
References
- Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyūjo (国立国語研究所) (1963) 沖縄語辞典 (Okinawa-go Jiten) [Dictionary of the Okinawan Language] (in Japanese), Tokyo (東京): Okurashō Insatsu Kyoku (財務省印刷局), page 277
- Okinawa Kogo Daijiten Henshū I'inkai (沖縄古語大辞典編集委員会) (1995) 沖縄古語大辞典 [Dictionary of Archaic Okinawan], Tokyo (東京都): Kadokawa Shoten (角川書店), →ISBN, page 694
Further reading
- “やまとぅゆー【大和世】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.