Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/mui
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Proto-Japonic
editEtymology
editCompare Old Korean 身萬 (*MWOma, “body”).
Noun
edit*mui
Descendants
edit- Old Japanese: 身 (mi2, mu, “body; meat”), 実 (mi2, “seed, fruit”)
- Proto-Ryukyuan: *mi
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kikai: 身 (mī, “body; meat”), 実 (mī, “seed, fruit”)
- Kunigami: 実 (mī, “seed, fruit”)
- Northern Amami Ōshima: 身 (mi, “body; meat”), 実 (mi, “seed, fruit”)
- Okinawan: 実 (mī, “seed, fruit”)
- Okinoerabu: 身 (mī, “body; meat”), 実 (mī, “seed, fruit”)
- Southern Amami Ōshima: 身 (mī, “body; meat”), 実 (mī, “seed, fruit”)
- Tokunoshima: 身 (mi, mī, “body; meat”), 実 (mi, mī, “seed, fruit”)
- Yoron: 実 (mī, “seed, fruit”)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
- Northern Ryukyuan:
See also
edit- *sisi (“flesh, meat (particularly animal)”)
Further reading
edit- Pellard, Thomas. "A (more) comparative approach to some Japanese etymologies." Studies in Japanese and Korean historical and theoretical linguistics and beyond (2017): 55-64.