Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan/kita

Etymology
Cognate to 🇨🇬, but it is not clear whether this is an early loan from Old/Middle Japanese. See the reconstruction notes for further information.

Pronunciation

 * Tone class: A?

Noun

 * 1)  north

Reconstruction notes
The general Ryukyuan term for "north" is, a cognate to. However, the Yamatohama dialect has a distinction: nishi means "west; north wind", but kita only means "north".

Just as, Jarosz (2023) argues that it is not likely that loanwords from mainland Japanese should just be limited to remote dialects, and not spread throughout Ryukyuan.

Descendants

 * Northern Ryukyuan: