うる

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of うる – see the following entries.

【売る】	[verb] [from 810] to sell something (to agree to transfer goods) [verb] [from 1591] to sell someone out, to betray [verb] [from 1913] to agitate, to incite

【得る】	[suffix] [from 759] to be able to, -able Alternative spelling 獲

(This term, うる (uru), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as うる, see Category:Japanese kanji read as うる.)

From Proto-Ryukyuan *uro (compare Northern Amami Ōshima うる (uru, “coral”), Okinawan うる (uru, “sand”), Miyako うる (uru, “red coral”), Yonaguni うる (uru, “lime”)).

うる (uru)

(Taketomi) lime
ウルヤウルイシュヤイティドゥヒクルン
uruya uruishu yaitidu hikurun
Limes are made from roasting rocks from the sea.
(Taketomi) mortar, plaster, stucco
カーラヤーヌウルヌルン
kārayānu uru nurun
To paint roof tiles with plaster.
(Hateruma) reef
(Hateruma) rocks of a reef

Borrowed from Japanese 虚 (uro, “a hollow place”).

うる (uru)

cave
イッサヌバシュヌ、ヒナシシールバシュヤ、ウルデッタラ
issa nu bashunu, hinashi shīru bashuya, urudettara
When it's time to battle, the place to hide is in the cave.

Maeara, Tōru (2011) 竹富方言辞典 [Taketomi Dialect Dictionary], Ishigaki: Nanzansha, page 265
“うる”, in 日本の危機言語‎^[1] (in Japanese), National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, 2022