Talk:蚊

Proto-Japonic/Proto-Ryukyuan cognates
Amply attested around Ryukyuan. These Ryukyuan terms apparently mean "mosquito":


 * Northern Ryukyuan:
 * Southern Ryukyuan:
 * Southern Ryukyuan:
 * Southern Ryukyuan:
 * Southern Ryukyuan:
 * Southern Ryukyuan:
 * Southern Ryukyuan:
 * Southern Ryukyuan:
 * Southern Ryukyuan:
 * Southern Ryukyuan:


 * The Proto-Japonic form would be but what is Proto-Ryukyuan reflex of all of these cognates?

And why are animals in the Ryukyuan languages always getting intial voiced consonants (e.g. and, where initial vowel is reconstructed unvoiced); even stuff like PR ?

P.S. I forgot to check JLect and it's apparently related to, whose variant gazame is attested since 934. But its etymology is unknown. But there's unvoiced kasame, kazame, kasami, kazami; so what is proto-form for kazami, kazame? Anything?

Now, This is for investigation. Chuterix (talk) 16:33, 1 June 2023 (UTC)