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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.
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Proto-Ryukyuan
Etymology
From Proto-Japonic *tə (“and”).
Particle
*to
- and
Descendants
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kikai: と゚ぅ (θu)
- Kunigami: とぅ (thu)
- Northern Amami Ōshima: と゚ぅ (θu)
- Okinawan: とぅ (tu)
- Okinoerabu: とぅ (tu)
- Southern Amami Ōshima: とぅ (tu)
- Tokunoshima: とぅ (tu)
- Yoron: とぅ (tu)
- Southern Ryukyuan: *to (Bentley, 2008b)
- Miyako: とぅ (tu)
- Yaeyama: とぅ (tu)
- Yonaguni: とぅ (tu)