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Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan/garasu

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

Alternative forms
  • *garas(V)a

Etymology

From Proto-Japonic *karasu (“crow”), with irregular voicing of the initial consonant.

The alternative reconstruction is due to forms ending in -a, but this must actually be a product of suffixing.

Pronunciation
  • Tone class: C

Noun

*garasu

  1. crow

Descendants
  • Northern Ryukyuan:
    • Kikai: 烏, 鴉 (garasā)
    • Kunigami: 烏, 鴉 (garāshi /⁠gàɾàːɕí⁠/)
    • Northern Amami-Oshima: 烏, 鴉 (garasï)
    • Okinawan: 烏, 鴉 (garasi /⁠gàɾàsì⁠/)
    • Oki-No-Erabu: 烏, 鴉 (garashi /⁠gàɾàɕí⁠/)
    • Toku-No-Shima: 烏, 鴉 (gara /⁠gáɾà⁠/) (with irregular deletion of *-su; Thorpe (1983, 275) speculates this deletion was a remnant of this word being bimorphemic. See also the Proto-Japonic entry.)
    • Yoron: 烏, 鴉 (garashi /⁠gàɾàɕì⁠/)
  • Southern Ryukyuan:
    • Miyako: 烏, 鴉 (garasa)
    • Yaeyama: 烏, 鴉 (garasï /⁠gárásɨ́⁠/)
    • Yonaguni: 烏, 鴉 (garachi /⁠gàɾátɕî⁠/)

Further reading

Thorpe, Maner Lawton (1983) Ryūkyūan Language History‎, Doctoral dissertation. University of Southern California, page 273

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