Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/bɕeʔ

This Proto-Austroasiatic 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-Austroasiatic

Etymology

  • Proto-Austroasiatic: *bɕeʔ (Sidwell, 2024, #AA080)
  • Proto-Mon-Khmer: *bheʔ (Sidwell, 2006, #260.A)

Many descendants of this etymon underwent debuccalization of the medial consonant (*-ɕ- > *-h-). Compare Proto-Austroasiatic *pɕuːm (“to fart”) and *tNɕaːm (“eight”) for similar cases of phonological change.

Noun

*bɕeʔ

  1. otter

Descendants

  • Bahnaric:
    • Proto-North-Central-Bahnaric: *phaj (Sidwell, 2011) (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-West-Bahnaric: *tsaj ~ *psaj (Sidwell, 2003) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Katuic: *psaj ~ *phaj (Sidwell, 2005) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Khasian: *ksiʔ (Sidwell, 2018) (see there for further descendants)
  • Khmeric:
  • Proto-Khmuic: *ksiʔ (Sidwell, 2013) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Monic: *phɛɛʔ (Diffloth, 1984)
  • Pearic:
    • Chong [Chantaburi & Kompong Som]: pʰeː
    • Chong [Samre]: pʰiː
  • Proto-Vietic: *p-seːʔ (Ferlus, 2007) (see there for further descendants)

References

  • Shorto, Harry (2006) Sidwell, Paul, Doug Cooper and Christian Bauer, editors, A Mon-Khmer Comparative Dictionary, Canberra: Australian National University. Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN
  • Sidwell, Paul (2024) “500 Proto Austroasiatic Etyma: Version 1.0”, in Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society‎[1], volume 17, number 1, pages i–xxxiii
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