海老蟹

Compound of 海老(えび) (ebi, “shrimp”) + 蟹(かに) (kani, “crab”). The kani changes to gani as an instance of rendaku (連濁). Compare Miyako いびがん (ibigan, “Japanese spiny lobster (Panulirus japonicus)”).

First attested in the Nippo Jisho (1603).^[1]

• (Tokyo) えびがに [èbígání] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [e̞bʲiɡa̠ɲ̟i]

• (Kyoto) えび​がに [ébígànì] (Kōki)^[1]

海老(えび)蟹(がに) • (ebigani) 

1. [from 1603] (dialect, Nagasaki) synonym of 伊勢海老 (iseebi, “Japanese spiny lobster (Panulirus japonicus)”)

   Yebigani. Lagoſla, ou lagoſlim. X.
   Yebigani. エビガニ (鰻蟹)　伊勢海老,または,車海老.下(X.)の語.

   Yebigani. Iseebi, mata wa, kurumaebi. shimo (X.) no go.

   Yebigani. The Japanese spiny lobster, or a Japanese king prawn. Shimo (western Japan) dialect.

   • 1603, Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam (Nippo Jisho) [Vocabulary of the Language of Japan] (in Portuguese), Nagasaki:
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2. [from 1957] a crayfish; particularly Procambarus clarkii; Clark's crayfish; red swamp crayfish

   Synonym: アメリカ蝲蛄 (amerikazarigani)

3. (dialect, Wakayama) red frog crab (Ranina ranina) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

   Synonym: 旭蟹 (asahigani)