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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.
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Proto-Ryukyuan
Etymology
From Proto-Japonic *mukansai (“centipede”).
Noun
*mukaze
- centipede
Descendants
- Northern Ryukyuan:
- Kikai: 百足 (mukade, mukadi, mukaze)
- Kunigami: 百足 (mukāji)
- Northern Amami Ōshima: 百足 (moxaze)
- Okinawan: 百足 (nkaji)
- Okinoerabu: 百足 (mukaji)
- Tokunoshima: 百足 (nukade)
- Yoron: 百足 (mukadi)
- Southern Ryukyuan:
- Miyako: 百足 (nkaji)
- Yaeyama: 百足 (ngasa)
- Yonaguni: 百足 (nkadi)