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Proto-Japonic[edit]
Adjective[edit]
*kəpa
- hard
Descendants[edit]
- Old Japanese: 強し (ko2pa)
- Japanese: 強い (kowai)
- ⇒ Japanese: 怖い (kowai, “frightening, scary”)
- Proto-Ryukyuan: *kowa, *kopa
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kikai: 強さい (fubasai)
- Kunigami: 強ーせん (fupāsen)
- Northern Amami-Oshima: 強さり (xohasari)
- Okinawan: 強さん (kufasan)
- Oki-No-Erabu: 強さん (fāsan)
- Southern Amami-Oshima: 強ーさむっ (kwahāsam)
- Toku-No-Shima: 強さい (xuwasai)
- Yoron: 強さん (fupasan)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako: 強 (kupa)
- Yaeyama: 強さん (kōsan)
- Yonaguni: 強ん (kwan), 強ーん (kwān)
References[edit]
- Martin, Samuel E. (1987) The Japanese Language Through Time, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 833