Reconstruction:Proto-Ryukyuan/mina

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 forms

• *ta-mina
• *siro-mina

Etymology

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

Noun

*mina

1. freshwater snail, Semisulcospira libertina
2. shellfish

Descendants

• Northern Ryukyuan:
  • Kikai: 蜷, 貝 (mina), 田蜷 (θanmyā) (< *mina, *tamina)
  • Kunigami: 蜷, 貝 (nā, minā), 田蜷 (thannā) (< *mina, *tamina)
  • Northern Amami-Oshima: 蜷 (mya), 田蜷 (θanmya) (< *mina, *tamina)
  • Okinawan: 田蜷 (tānna), 白蜷 (shirunna) (< *tamina, *siromina)
  • Oki-No-Erabu: 蜷, 貝 (nyā), 田蜷 (θannya, θannyā) (< *tamina)
  • Southern Amami-Oshima: 蜷, 貝 (minya), 田蜷 (θanmya) (< *mina, *tamina)
  • Toku-No-Shima: 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:
  • Miyako: 蜷 (mna)
  • Yaeyama: 蜷 (nna)
  • Yonaguni: 蜷, 貝 (nda), 田蜷 (tanna) (< *mina, *tamina)

References

• Thorpe, Maner Lawton (1983) Ryūkyūan Language History‎^[1], Doctoral dissertation. University of Southern California, page 326