いばさん

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Okinawan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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The word stem いば ('iba-), from Proto-Ryukyuan *eba-ᴮ, seems to be cognate to Japanese 狭(せば) (seba-), stem of 狭(せば)い (sebai), older variant of 狭(せま)い (semai), via unknown Japonic substratum in which the *s at the beginning of a word can correspond to a zero consonant.

Adjective

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いばさん (ibasan) 

  1. narrow, confined
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