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Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan/mena

This Proto-Ryukyuan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Ryukyuan

Alternative reconstructions
  • *mina

Etymology

From Proto-Japonic *mena (“freshwater snail, Semisulcospira libertina”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mena/

Noun

*mena

  1. freshwater snail, Semisulcospira libertina

Descendants
  • Northern Ryukyuan:
    • Kikai: 田蜷 (θanmyā) (< *tamina)
    • Kunigami: 田蜷 (thannā) (< *tamina)
    • Northern Amami-Oshima: 蜷 (mya), 田蜷 (θanmya) (< *mina, *tamina)
    • Okinawan: 田蜷 (tānna), 白蜷 (shirunna) (< *tamina, *shiromina)
    • Southern Amami-Oshima: 蜷 (minya), 田蜷 (θanmya) (< *mina, *tamena)
    • Toku-No-Shima: 蜷 (myā), 曲がり蜷 (magarinnya) (< *mina, *magarimina)
  • Southern Ryukyuan:
    • Miyako: 蜷 (mna)
    • Yaeyama: 蜷 (nna)

References
  • Maner Lawton Thorpe (1983) Ryūkyūan Language History‎, page 326
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