Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/kɔːʔ

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: *kɔːʔ (Sidwell, 2024, #AA284)
  • Proto-Mon-Khmer: *kɔʔ (Shorto, 2006)

Proto-Vietic reflex has *-h as coda, while most other branches have *-ʔ. For a similar case of apparent Austroasiatic coda alternation, see *lwa(ː)ʔ.

Noun

*kɔːʔ

  1. neck

Descendants

  • Proto-Bahnaric: *kɔːʔ (Sidwell, 2011)
    • Proto-Central Bahnaric: *ʔəkɔː
      • Bahnar: hơko (Sidwell, 2011)
      • Sre:
        • Maa: kɔː
        • Koho: nko (“neck”)
    • Proto-South Bahnaric: *ʔnkɔː (Sidwell, 2000)
      • Eastern Mnong: ko
  • Khmeric: *kɔː (Sidwell & Rau, 2015)
    • Khmer: ក (kɑɑ, “neck”)
  • Proto-Monic: *kɔɔʔ (Diffloth, 1984)
    • Old Mon: ko'
      • Mon: ကံ (kɔˀ, “neck, throat”)
  • Proto-Vietic: *koh (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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