Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/doːl

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: *doːl ~ *duəl (Sidwell, 2024, #AA423)
  • Proto-Mon-Khmer: *dul (Shorto, 2006, #1741)

Within Austroasiatic, there is another similar form with coda *-r, represented by Proto-Bahnaric *dɔːr (whence Koho dor) and Proto-Palaungic *ɗɤr (whence Western Lawa thu).

Outside thereof, compare perhaps Proto-Tai *C̥.doːjᴬ.

Noun

*doːl

  1. hill, mound
    Synonym: *bnɨm

Descendants

  • Proto-Katuic: *dɔɔl (Sidwell, 2005) (see there for further descendants)
  • Khasic:
  • Khmeric:
    • Khmer: ទួល (tuəl)
      → Western Cham: du̯al (“hill, mound, knoll”)
  • Monic:
  • Proto-Vietic: *doːl (Ferlus, 2007) (see there for further descendants)
  • →? Old Chinese: 屯 (OC *duːn) (Schuessler, 2007)

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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