Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/mukantai

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

Alternative reconstructions

*mukansai

Reconstruction

The final *-ai diphthong is reconstructed on the assumption that the word is derived from *tai (“hand”).

Noun

*mukantai

centipede

Descendants

Old Japanese: 呉公 (mukate)
- Japanese: 百足 (mukade, mukaze)
Proto-Ryukyuan: *mukaze
- 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)