Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/mentu

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.

Proto-Japonic

Etymology

A suffixed form of a root *me, also seen in Goguryeo 買 (*me, “river, water”). Related with Goguryeo 買召, 彌鄒 (*medu).

Noun

*mentu

water

Descendants

Old Japanese: 水 (mi₁du)
- Japanese: 水 (mizu)
Proto-Ryukyuan: *medu
- Northern Ryukyuan:
  - Kikai: 水 (midu, mïzu)
  - Kunigami: 水 (mijī)
  - Northern Amami-Oshima: 水 (mïzï, mïji)
  - Okinawan: 水 (miji)
  - Oki-No-Erabu: 水 (miji, mijī)
  - Southern Amami-Oshima: 水 (mït)
  - Toku-No-Shima: 水 (mïzï)
  - Yoron: 水 (miji)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
  - Miyako: 水 (mizï)
  - Yaeyama: 水 (mizï)
  - Yonaguni: 水 (min)

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