Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/kir-
Proto-Japonic
Verb
*kir- (infinitive *kiri)
- to cut
Descendants
- Old Japanese: 切る (ki1ru)
- Japanese: 切る (kiru)
- Proto-Ryukyuan: *kir-
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kikai: 切ゆい (chiyui)
- Kunigami: 切ん (chin)
- Northern Amami Ōshima: 切るり (kiruri)
- Okinawan: 切ーん (chīn)
- Okinoerabu: 切ゅん (kyun)
- Southern Amami Ōshima: 切りゅむっ (kiryum)
- Tokunoshima: 切りぃ (kirï)
- Yoron: 切ゅん (kyun)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako: 切 (ksïï)
- Yaeyama: 切ん (kïsun)
- Yonaguni: 切ん (tsun)
- Northern Ryukyuan: