Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan/pukore
Proto-Ryukyuan
Etymology
From Proto-Japonic *pukoru (“to swell”).
Verb
*pukore
- to swell
Descendants
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kikai: 膨っきゆい (pukkiyui), 膨っきぃゆい (fukkïyui), 膨っきうい (pukkiui)
- Kunigami: 膨っきん (phukkin)
- Northern Amami Ōshima: 膨くりぃるり (fukurïruri)
- Okinawan: 膨っくぃゆん (fukkwiyun)
- Okinoerabu: 膨くりゆん (fukuriyun)
- Southern Amami Ōshima: 膨くっりぃゆむっ (fukrïyum)
- Tokunoshima: 膨っくいぃりぃ (fukkwïrï)
- Yoron: 膨くりゅん (fukuryun)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako: 膨くりㇲ゙ (fukuriz)
- Yaeyama: 膨くりん (fukurin), 膨くりるん (fukurirun)
- Yonaguni: 膨くりるん (kkurirun)
References
- Thorpe, Maner Lawton (1983) Ryūkyūan Language History[1], Doctoral dissertation. University of Southern California, page 337