Proto-Japonic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Note the similarity with Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁m(uə)ŋʔ (“nail, claw”), whence Vietnamese móng (“nail, claw”).
*tumay
- nail, claw
Descendants[edit]
- Old Japanese: 爪 (tume2, tuma)
- Japanese: 爪 (tsume, tsuma)
- Proto-Ryukyuan: *tume
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kikai: 爪 (tumi, tsumi)
- Kunigami: 爪 (chimī)
- Northern Amami-Oshima: 爪 (chimï, tsïmï)
- Okinawan: 爪 (chimi)
- Oki-No-Erabu: 爪 (chimi, chimī)
- Southern Amami-Oshima: 爪 (tïmï)
- Toku-No-Shima: 爪 (tsïmï)
- Yoron: 爪 (chimi)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako: 爪 (tsïmi)
- Yaeyama: 爪 (tsïmi)
- Yonaguni: 爪 (nmi)