Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/e-ka

Etymology
apparently reconstructs initial *e- on the speculative basis that "the Northern Amami dialects point to initial proto-Ryukyuan *e-, not *i-", and claims the lack of palatalization in Benoki demonstrates that the initial *e- is segmentable. However, it appears that no Ryukyuan dialect faithfully preserves the distinction of intial Proto-Japonic *e ~ *i, except *i- would trigger palatalization in a velar, alveolar, whether it is part of the phoneme or precedes the following syllable (c.f. <  or  < ).

If the reconstruction is correct, the initial *e- may be cognate with 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) how

Descendants

 * (< ika, ika-ni-ka)
 * (< ika, ika-ni-ka)