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

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