牛ぬ乳
Okinawan
[edit]| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 牛 | 乳 |
| うし Grade: 2 |
ちー Grade: 6 |
| kun'yomi | |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 牛乳 |
Etymology
[edit]Compound of 牛 (ushi, “cow”) + ぬ (nu, possessive particle) + 乳 (chī, “milk”). Cognate with Japanese 牛の乳 (ushi no chichi, rare alternate reading ushi no chī, literally “cow's milk”), more commonly expressed in modern Japanese using the Chinese-derived term 牛乳 (gyūnyū).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]牛ぬ乳 (ushinuchī)
References
[edit]- “うしぬちー【牛ぬ乳・牛乳】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.
Categories:
- Okinawan terms spelled with 牛 read as うし
- Okinawan terms spelled with 乳 read as ちー
- Okinawan terms read with kun'yomi
- Okinawan compound terms
- Okinawan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Okinawan lemmas
- Okinawan nouns
- Okinawan terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Okinawan terms spelled with sixth grade kanji
- Okinawan terms with 2 kanji
- ryu:Milk