Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/uma

Etymology 1
Possibly derived as a nativized borrowing from, from. See the Proto-Sino-Tibetan entry for more details.

The ma sound denoting "horse" is common to a number of languages of central Asia, where horses were first domesticated, which has led some to speculate about a possible cognate root (but no consensus on any kind of relation exists). Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 and descendants such as 🇨🇬 or 🇨🇬. More at.

Noun



 * 1)  horse

Descendants

 * Peninsular Japonic: *ma
 * Puyǒ:
 * Han:
 * Peninsular Japonic: *ma
 * Puyǒ:
 * Han:
 * Han:
 * Han:

Etymology 2
Might originally be an interjection; compare.

Samuel Martin compares.

Adjective

 * 1) good
 * 2) delicious
 * 1) delicious

Descendants

 * Middle
 * Middle