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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.
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Proto-Japonic
Pronoun
*n-anu-[1]
- what
Alternative reconstructions
Descendants
- Eastern Old Japanese: 何 (an-)
- Old Japanese: 何 (nani)
- Proto-Ryukyuan: *nao
- Northern Ryukyuan: 루욱가 (/ru.uk.ka/) (Haytong Ceykwukki, 1501) (ぬーっか)
- Kikai: 何 (nū)
- Kunigami: 何 (nū)
- Northern Amami Ōshima: 何 (nū)
- Okinawan: 何 (nū)
- Okinoerabu: 何 (nū)
- Southern Amami Ōshima: 何 (nū)
- Tokunoshima: 何 (nu)
- Yoron: 何 (nū)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako: 何 (nau, nō)
- Yaeyama: 何 (nō)
- Yonaguni: 何 (nū)
References
- ^ Vovin, Alexander (2010), Koreo-Japonica: A Re-Evaluation of a Common Genetic Origin, University of Hawai’i Press, →ISBN, →JSTOR, page 67