Related to *awo (“blue”).
*awoi[1]
- indigo
- Old Japanese: 藍 (awi)
- Proto-Ryukyuan: *ai
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kikai: 藍 (ē)
- Kunigami: 藍 (ē)
- Northern Amami Ōshima: 藍 (yē)
- Okinawan: 藍 (ē)
- Okinoerabu: 藍 (ai)
- Southern Amami Ōshima: 藍 (ē)
- Tokunoshima: 藍 (ai)
- Yoron: 藍 (ai)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako: 藍 (āz)
- Yaeyama: 藍 (ai)
- Yonaguni: 藍 (ai)
- ^ Pellard, Thomas (2013) “Ryukyuan perspectives on the proto-Japonic vowel system”, in Frellesvig, Bjarke, Sells, Peter, editors, Japanese/Korean Linguistics[1], number 20, CSLI Publications, →ISBN, page 91