Where does “Miyako” come from?

Miyako (English) comes from Japanese 宮古島, from Japanese 島, from Middle Chinese 島.

Miyako (English): A group of islands in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It lies a few hundred kilometres east of Taipei, Taiwan

Definitions

  1. A group of islands in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It lies a few hundred kilometres east of Taipei, Taiwan

Ancestry of “Miyako”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese宮古島—
2Japanese島an island; one's domain, territory, turf
3Middle Chinese島—

Words derived from “Miyako”

Every word from Middle Chinese 島 →Every word from Japanese 島 →Every word from Japanese 宮古島 →