Table 8.
Sound correspondences of possible loanwords for ‘honey, sweet’ with i- and e-vocalism.
| Proto-Indo-European | * m | e | dh | u |
| Proto-Uralic | *m | e | t | i |
| Old Chinese | *m | i | t | - |
| Old Japanese | *m | i | ts | u |
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