Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan/yoki

Etymology 1
From.

As it does not snow in the Ryukyu Islands, most dialects, particularly Okinawan, use this word with the meaning 'hail'.

Noun

 * 1)  hail
 * 2) snow

Descendants

 * Northern Ryukyuan: (Haytong Ceykwukki, 1501)
 * Southern Ryukyuan:
 * Southern Ryukyuan:
 * Southern Ryukyuan:
 * Southern Ryukyuan:
 * Southern Ryukyuan:
 * Southern Ryukyuan:
 * Southern Ryukyuan:
 * Southern Ryukyuan:

Etymology 2
Cognate with 🇨🇬. Presumably from Proto-Japonic, but the word is attested too late to precisely reconstruct a vowel.

The vowel lengthening in some Northern Ryukyuan dialects and the medial -i- in the Yoron Mugiya Higashi-ku dialect suggests an earlier derivation *yo(C)Vki.

Pronunciation

 * Tone class: irregular

Noun

 * 1) hatchet

Descendants

 * Northern Ryukyuan:
 * Amami:
 * Asama:
 * Kametsu:
 * China:
 * Wadomari:
 * Mugiya Higashi-ku:
 * Okinawan:
 * Kunigami (Northern Okinawa):
 * Ie:
 * Nakijin:
 * Southern Okinawa:
 * Shuri:
 * Southern Ryukyuan (Sakishima):
 * Hirara:
 * Ikema:
 * Irabu:
 * Nakachi:
 * Tarama-Minna:
 * Minna:
 * Tarama:
 * Nuclear-Yaeyama:
 * Hatoma:
 * Ishigaki:
 * Taketomi:
 * Nuclear-Yaeyama:
 * Hatoma:
 * Ishigaki:
 * Taketomi:
 * Taketomi: