Japonic Comparative Dictionary

[Ryan Tran (Chuterix)]

Hi, this is Ryan.

I want to make a reconstructed Proto-Japonic lexicon similar to Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary.

I wonder if someone can help collaborate with this, which is why I've been requesting Ryukyuan resources. I want the many cognate sets possible of Japonic.

[Ryan Tran (Chuterix)]

This will be similar to the abandoned Vovin's Etymological Dictionary of the Japonic languages, whose site is now gone.

Examples of PJ words with many Ryukyuan cognates include:

• *mentu - water
• *kəy - tree
• *sima - island
• *tukuy - moon
• *esoy - stone (from iswo [磯])
• *moko - bridegroom; son-in-law
• *peru - garlic

That's not all yet!

[Amanda Stinchecum]

There are bookstores in Ishigaki (Yamada Shoten, for example) and on Okinawa (not necessarily in Naha) that are likely sources for the  石垣方言辞典.

Amanda Stinchecum

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