Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/ipu

This Proto-Japonic 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.

This Proto-Japonic entry contains original research. The reconstruction in this entry is based on published research, but the specific form presented here is not found in prior works.

Proto-Japonic

Etymology

Compare Late Old Korean 邑 (*ip, “mouth”), modern 입 (ip).

Verb

*ipu (infinitive *ipi)

1. to say

Descendants

• Old Japanese: 言ふ, 謂ふ (ipu)
  • Japanese: 言う, 謂う (iu, yū)
• Proto-Ryukyuan: *ii
  • Northern Ryukyuan:
    • Kikai: 言ゆい, 謂ゆい (iyui), 言い, 謂い ('yui)
    • Kunigami: 言ん, 謂ん ('yun)
    • Northern Amami-Oshima: 言ーり, 謂ーり ('yūri)
    • Okinawan: 言ん, 謂ん ('yun)
    • Oki-No-Erabu: 言ん, 謂ん ('yun)
    • Southern Amami-Oshima: 言むっ, 謂むっ ('yum)
    • Toku-No-Shima: 言い, 謂い ('yūi)
    • Yoron: 言ん, 謂ん ('yun)
  • Southern Ryukyuan:
    • Miyako: 言ㇲ゙, 謂ㇲ゙ (zz)
    • Yaeyama: 言ずん, 謂ずん (izun)
    • Yonaguni: 言ゆん, 謂ゆん (iyun)