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Proto-Japonic[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
*kapa
- source of freshwater
Descendants[edit]
- Old Japanese: 河 (kapa, “river”)
- Proto-Ryukyuan: *kawa (“spring, well”)
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kikai: 川 (hā)
- Kunigami: 川 (hā)
- Northern Amami-Oshima: 川 (xo)
- Okinawan: 川 (kā)
- Oki-No-Erabu: 川 (hō)
- Southern Amami-Oshima: 川 (xō)
- Toku-No-Shima: 川 (xō)
- Yoron: 川 (kō)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako: 川 (kā)
- Yaeyama: 川 (kā)
- Yonaguni: 川 (kā)
Etymology 2[edit]
*kapa
- bark, hide, skin
- leather
- the side of something, the surface or covering of something
Descendants[edit]
- Old Japanese: 皮, 革 (kapa, “hide, leather; bark”); 側 (kapa, “side”)
- Japanese: 皮, 革 (kawa, “hide, leather; bark”); 側 (kawa, “side”)
- Proto-Ryukyuan: *kawa
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kikai: 皮, 革 (hā)
- Kunigami: 皮, 革 (hā)
- Northern Amami-Oshima: 皮, 革 (xo)
- Okinawan: 皮, 革 (kā)
- Oki-No-Erabu: 皮, 革 (hō)
- Southern Amami-Oshima: 皮, 革 (xō)
- Toku-No-Shima: 皮, 革 (xō)
- Yoron: 皮, 革 (hō)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako: 皮, 革 (kā)
- Yaeyama: 皮, 革 (kā)
- Yonaguni: 皮, 革 (kā)