Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/ninka
Proto-Japonic
Adjective
*ninka
Descendants
- Old Japanese: 苦 (niga-)
- Japanese: 苦い (nigai)
- Proto-Ryukyuan: *niga
- Northern Ryukyuan: 리가사 (/ri.ka.sa/) (Haytong Ceykwukki, 1501)
- Kikai: 苦さい (nyāsai)
- Kunigami: 苦ーせん (jāsen)
- Northern Amami Ōshima: 苦さり (nigyasari)
- Okinawan: 苦さん (njasan)
- Okinoerabu: 苦さん (nigyasan)
- Southern Amami Ōshima: 苦ーさむっ (nigyāsam)
- Tokunoshima: 苦ーい (ingyāi)
- Yoron: 苦さん (ninjasan)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako: 苦 (ngya)
- Yaeyama: 苦さん (ngasan)
- Yonaguni: 苦ん (ndan)
- Northern Ryukyuan: 리가사 (/ri.ka.sa/) (Haytong Ceykwukki, 1501)
References
- Samuel E. Martin (1987) The Japanese Language Through Time, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 837