Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan/oya
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This Proto-Ryukyuan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence. |
Proto-Ryukyuan
Etymology
From Proto-Japonic *əya (“one's elders; parent”).
Noun
*oya
Descendants
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Southern Ryukyuan:
References
- Thorpe (1983) p. 315
- Curry (2004) p. 269
- “うや”, in 日本の危機言語 (in Japanese), National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, 2022