Reconstruction:Proto-Japonic/paimpi

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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

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Alternative reconstructions

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Reconstruction

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The reconstruction is controversial, due to the irregular correspondences between Japanese and Ryukyuan. JLTT 404 reconstructs *papimi and hypothesizes lenition and loss of medial *p (*papimi > *paymi > pemi) in Japanese, but this does not account for the Ryukyuan form, which can only be from a medial *u that became word-final from the metathesis of the nasal and either loss or metathesis of the original final vowel (*papumi > *pa(i)pum > *panpu, *penpu > *pabu, *pebu). On the surface, this might possibly underlie the same process leading to putative Korean cognate (baem), but that term's Middle Korean ancestor forms of ᄇᆞ〮얌 (pò.yám) and ᄇᆡ얌 (poyyam) may make cognacy less likely on phonological grounds.

Etymology

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Possibly cognate with Korean (baem, snake).

Noun

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*paimpi

  1. snake

Descendants

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  • Old Japanese: (pe2mi1)
    • Japanese: (hebi, hemi)
  • Proto-Ryukyuan: *pabu
    • Northern Ryukyuan:
      • Kikai: (pīpā) (< *pebuwa)
      • Kunigami: (phabū)
      • Northern Amami Ōshima: (habu)
      • Okinawan: (habu, fību, fībā) (< *pabu, *pebu, *pebuwa)
      • Okinoerabu: (hibu, hibū) (< *pebu)
      • Southern Amami Ōshima: (hap)
    • Southern Ryukyuan:
      • Miyako: (pav)
      • Yaeyama: (pabu)
      • Yonaguni: (hinpa) (< *pebuCa)

References

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  1. ^ Samuel E. Martin (1987) The Japanese Language Through Time, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 404