Proto-Japonic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possibly borrowed ultimately from Sanskrit शराव (śarāva, “plate”).[1]
*sara
- plate
Descendants[edit]
- Old Japanese: 皿, 盤 (sara)
- Proto-Ryukyuan: *sara
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kikai: 皿, 盤 (sara)
- Kunigami: 皿, 盤 (sarā)
- Northern Amami-Oshima: 皿, 盤 (sara)
- Okinawan: 皿, 盤 (sara)
- Oki-No-Erabu: 皿, 盤 (sara)
- Southern Amami-Oshima: 皿, 盤 (sara)
- Toku-No-Shima: 皿, 盤 (sharā)
- Yoron: 皿, 盤 (sara)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako: 皿, 盤 (sara)
- Yaeyama: 皿, 盤 (sara)
- Yonaguni: 皿, 盤 (sara)
References[edit]
- ^ Martin, Samuel E. (1987) The Japanese Language Through Time, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 518