Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan/mina
Proto-Ryukyuan
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Japonic *mina (“freshwater snail, Semisulcospira libertina”).
Noun
edit*mina
Descendants
edit- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kikai: 蜷, 貝 (mina), 田蜷 (θanmyā) (< *mina, *tamina)
- Kunigami: 蜷, 貝 (nā, minā), 田蜷 (thannā) (< *mina, *tamina)
- Northern Amami Ōshima: 蜷 (mya), 田蜷 (θanmya) (< *mina, *tamina)
- Okinawan: 田蜷 (tānna), 白蜷 (shirunna) (< *tamina, *siromina)
- Okinoerabu: 蜷, 貝 (nyā), 田蜷 (θannya, θannyā) (< *tamina)
- Southern Amami Ōshima: 蜷, 貝 (minya), 田蜷 (θanmya) (< *mina, *tamina)
- Tokunoshima: 蜷, 貝 (myā, nyā), 田蜷 (θannya), 曲がり蜷 (magarinnya) (< *mina, *tamina, *magarimina)
- Yoron: 蜷, 貝 (hinya), 田蜷 (tannya) (< *mina, *tamina)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
References
edit- Thorpe, Maner Lawton (1983) Ryūkyūan Language History[1], Doctoral dissertation. University of Southern California, page 326