Reconstruction talk:Proto-Japonic/ma-

Likely mistake
, I strongly suspect that the Ryukyuan cognates represent shifts from older uma-, with loss of initial low-pitch (unaccented) u-.

Beyond the speculation here in this entry, there is no evidence I'm aware of for the existence of any such Proto-level prefix *ma- with a meaning of "good". ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 22:35, 15 December 2022 (UTC)