きゆ

Okinawan

Alternative spelling
今日

Etymology

From Proto-Ryukyuan *keu.

Pronunciation

• (Shuri) IPA^(key): [kíjú] (tone class B)

Noun

きゆ

1. 今日: (literary) today

   今日(けふ)のほこらしやや / なをにぎやなたてる / つぼでをる花(はな)の / 露(つゆ)きやたごと

   kiyu nu fukurashaya / naunigyanatateru / tsibudiwuruhananu / tsiyukyatagutu

   What should I compare for today's happiness? Flower buds that meet with dew? (Ryūka by Gujinfū)

   • 1531-1623, Omoro Sōshi

     きこゑ大きみきや　けよ　ふらす　あめや　きやのうちみやに　こかね　ふりみちへて

     kikowe-OFOkimi-gya keyo furasu ame-ya kya-no-uchimiya-ni kogane furimichifete

     Well-known Holy Lady, Making the rain fall today

   • Nantō Kayō

     きふの　夜や　おどまり／なまの　夜や　おどまり／ねく筵　おわいすら

     kifu-no YUya odomari / nama-no YUya odomari / neku-MUSHIRU owaisura

     Tonight's stop / this night's stop; / I give the thick straw mat.

   • Ryūka Zenshū

     けふの　よかる　日に　昔どし　いきやて　嬉しさや　互に　語て遊ば

     kefu-no yokaru FI-ni MUKASHI-doshi ikyate URIshisa-ya TAGĒ-ni KATAteASIba

     On a good today; I went to my past friends; and we were happy together; let's talk and play.

   • Kumiodori

     やあ　なし子　けふからの　先や　敵　かたき　と思な

     yā nashiKKWA kefu-kara-no SACHIya KATACHI kataki^[sic] to UMŪna

     Hey, my dear child; from this point on today; don't think about your enemies.

   • 1711, Konkōkenshū:

     けふ　今日

     Keu. Today.

Descendants

• Okinawan: ちゅー (chū)

References

• Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyūjo (国立国語研究所) (1963) 沖縄語辞典 (Okinawa-go Jiten) [Dictionary of the Okinawan Language] (in Japanese), Tokyo (東京): Okurashō Insatsu Kyoku (財務省印刷局), pages 21, 320
• Okinawa Kogo Daijiten Henshū I'inkai (沖縄古語大辞典編集委員会) (1995) 沖縄古語大辞典 [Dictionary of Archaic Okinawan], Tokyo (東京都): Kadokawa Shoten (角川書店), →ISBN, page 267