Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/y

Seen in various Proto-Japonic words. No longer seen or productive in the modern Japonic language family.

According to one theory, from earlier Pre-Proto-Japonic *r. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Possibly cognate with Korean nominal particle 이 (i).

*y

1. emphatic nominal particle

• Old Japanese: い (i)

• *kamuy (“god”)
• *poy (“fire”)
• *munay (“chest”)
• *kəy (“tree”)
• *napay (“seedling”)
• *muy (“body, flesh, meat”)
• *tumay (“claw”)
• *tay (“hand”)
• *kansay (“wind”)
• *kankay (“shadow”)
• *amay (“the heavens; rain”)
• *patakay (“dry field; field (for growing crops)”)
• *papay (“fly”)
• *takay (“bamboo”)
• *koway (“voice”)
• *kanay (“metal”)
• *may (“eye”)
• *pinkay (“beard”)
• *kəmay (“rice”)
• *kutuy (“mouth”)
• *wasay (“early rice”)
• *upay (“above”)
• *untay (“arm”)
• *yəməy (“underworld”)
• *mukantay (“centipede”)
• *nay (“root”)
• *panay (“feather”)
• *punay (“boat”)
• *sunkuy (“cedar”)
• *kay (“hair”)
• *awoy (“indigo”) (← *awo (“blue”); compare Old Japanese 藍 (awi, “indigo”, modern ai) and Okinawan 藍 (ē, “indigo”))
• *pənay (“bone”)
• *mamay (“bean”)
• *utuy (“inside”)
• *yamuy (“the dark; darkness”, noun)