JAWing On – Life on Okinawa

Weekly Hogen (Okinawan Dialect) :

English – comforter or bedding

Japanese – futon (???)

Hogen – uudu (????)

Weekly Hogen (Okinawan Dialect) :

English – visor

Japanese – hisashi (???)

Hogen – amageeji (?????)

Having lived overseas for most of the past thriry-three years, sometimes I run accross "sayings" that I just don’t recognize. A little while back I ran across this dictionary. (In my case this could be called a modern slang bible for dummies.) Being a person who tends to create her own words and phrases (usually mixing verbal images of cultures I’ve experienced) to better express a mental image of a situation or person, I found this site extremely interesting.

Weekly Hogen (Okinawan Dialect) :

English – It is noisy.

Japanese – yakamashii(?????)
yagamashii (?????) *
urasai (????)

Hogen – yagamasanu (?????)

(*NOTE: This word seems to be a deviation on base word yakamashii. As with the individual islands of the Ryukyu Island chain, certain areas of Japan tend to have a "slang" and word derivatives that are indicative of each particular area. This is simliar to the "you all" and "y’all" differences heard in America.)

Weekly Hogen (Okinawan Dialect) :

English – garlic chives

Japanese – negi or nira (?????)

Hogen – biira (???)

Weekly Hogen (Okinawan Dialect) :

English – peanut

Japanese – nankinmame (??????)

Hogen – jiimaami (?????)

Weekly Hogen (Okinawan Dialect) :

English – seaweed (konbu is a specific type of kelp used in cooking)

Japanese – konbu (???)

Hogen – kuubu (???)

Weekly Hogen (Okinawan Dialect) :

English – peach

Japanese – momo (??)

Hogen – mumu?(??)

Weekly Hogen (Okinawan Dialect) :

English – generally (about, approximately)

Japanese – daitai?(????)

Hogen – teegee (????)