沖縄

/okinapa/ → /okinafa/ → /okinawa/

From Old Japanese. Compound of 沖 (oki, “offshore, at sea”) +‎ 縄 (nawa, “rope”).

• (Tokyo) おきなわ [òkínáwá] (Heiban – [0])[1]
• IPA^(key): [o̞kʲina̠ɰᵝa̠]

沖(おき)縄(なわ) • (okinawa) ^{←おきなは (okinafa)?}

1. (rare, possibly obsolete) a rope used to catch fish

沖(おき)縄(なわ) • (Okinawa) ^{←おきなは (okinafa)?}

1. the main island in the Okinawa Islands: Okinawa Island
   • 779, Tōdai Wajō Tōsei Den, page 905:

     [...] 十六日發、廿一日戊午、第一第二兩舟同至阿児奈波嶋在多禰島南西第三舟作夜已泊同處十二月六日南風起第一舟著石不動第二舟發向多禰去七日至益救嶋[...]

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   • circa 1300, Heike Monogatari‎, Nagatobon:

     さつまがたとは惣名也、きかいは十二の島なれば、くち五島は日本へ随へり、おく七しまはいまだ我朝に従はずといへり、白石、、あこしき、くろ島、いわうが島、あせ納、あ世波、やくの島とて、ゑらぶ、おきなは、きかいが島といへり

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   • 1531-1623, Omoro Sōshi, page 96:

     あがまぶるたたみきよせひやくたてわやりあまみやからおきなわたけててはおもはな しねりやからみしまもりててはおもはな

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2. a group of islands known as the Okinawa Islands
3. the southern-most Japanese prefecture: Okinawa Prefecture

• (island chain): 琉(りゅう)球(きゅう) (Ryūkyū)

• Hokama, Shuzen; Nobutsuna Saigō (1972) Nihon Shisō Taikai 18: Omoro Sōshi (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten
• Takeuchi, Rizō (1962) Nara Ibun: Volume 3 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Tōkyōdō Shuppan, →ISBN.

Cognate with Japanese 沖縄 (Okinawa, literally “offshore + rope”).

• IPA^(key): /ɸut͡ɕinaː/

沖縄 (hiragana ふちなー, romaji Fuchinā)

1. Okinawa

Cognate with Japanese 沖縄 (Okinawa, literally “offshore + rope”).

• IPA^(key): /ukˢɨnaː/

沖縄 (hiragana うきぃなー, romaji Uksïnā)

1. Okinawa

From Proto-Ryukyuan *okinawa (“offshore rope”), from Proto-Japonic *əkinapa, from *əki (“offshore”) + *napa (“rope”). Cognate with Japanese 沖縄 (Okinawa, literally “offshore + rope”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔut͡ɕinaː/

沖縄 (hiragana うちなー, rōmaji Uchinā)

1. Okinawa

• “うちなー【沖縄】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.
• 沖縄語辞典 (Okinawago Jiten, “Okinawan Dictionary”)‎, 1963

Cognate with Japanese 沖縄 (Okinawa, literally “offshore + rope”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔukɨnaː/

沖縄 (hiragana うきぃなー, romaji Ukïnā)

1. Okinawa

Cognate with Japanese 沖縄 (Okinawa, literally “offshore + rope”).

• IPA^(key): /unna/

沖縄 (hiragana うんな, romaji Unna)

1. Okinawa