Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/mui

This Proto-Japonic 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.

Compare Old Korean 身萬 (*MWOma, “body”).

*mui

1. body
2. flesh, meat (not necessarily animal)
3. seed, fruit

• Old Japanese: 身 (mi₂, mu, “body; meat”), 実 (mi₂, “seed, fruit”)
  • Japanese: 身 (mi, mu, “body; meat”), 実 (mi, “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:
    • Miyako: 身 (m, miz, “body; meat”)
    • Yaeyama: 身 (mïï, “body; meat”), 実 (mïï, “seed, fruit”)
    • Yonaguni: 身 (mī, “body; meat”)

• *sisi (“flesh, meat (particularly animal)”)

• Pellard, Thomas. "A (more) comparative approach to some Japanese etymologies." Studies in Japanese and Korean historical and theoretical linguistics and beyond (2017): 55-64.