みる【水】 : miru | define meaning

Cognate with Akita むぃづぃ mïdzï; Nagasaki (Gotou) and Kagoshima (Minamikyushu) みん min; Kagoshima みっ miq; Kagoshima (Yakushima) みる miru and みーる miiru; Amami (Setouchi) めィでぃ mïdi; Okinoerabu, Yoron and Okinawan みじ miji; Yonaguni みん min; and standard Japanese みず【水】 mizu "water", historically written みづ【水】 midu.

Historical Ryukyuan attestations

• おもろさうし Omoro Saushi (1531-1623) records "みつ".
• Konkoukenshuu (混効験集, 1711), "Words of the Royal Palace", records みづ midu (#2 p. 18).
• A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, 1795-1798 (1804), by William Robert Broughton, records "Mizee, Water".
• Vocabulary of the language spoken at the Great Loo-Choo island in the Japan Sea (1818), by Herbert John Clifford, records "Water. Meézee, or Meésee", "Water tub. Meez-ofwhókee (cont. of meezee and ofoowookee)", "Have not got water. Meézee nárang", "Salt water. Spookarása Meézee", "Bring a cup of water here. Cháwung náki meézee eéteecoo", "Water will scald you. Meésee yáddee", and "Scalding oneself with hot water. Meézee fidgeroósa yoo yáddee".
• Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste: Along the Coast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew, with an Account of Her Subsequent Shipwreck (1818), by John M'Leod, records "Water. Midzee".
• Essay in Aid of a Grammar and Dictionary of the Luchuan Language (1895), by Basil Hall Chamberlain, records "Mizi, water. (Jap. mizu.)".

Reconstructions:

• Most sources reconstruct *medu for proto-Ryukyuan, *midu for proto-Japanese and *medu for proto-Japonic.