Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/kʔaːkʔ

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: *kʔaːkʔ (Sidwell, 2024, #AA011)
  • Proto-Mon-Khmer: *kʔaak ~ *kʔaik (Shorto, 2006, #270)

Noun

*kʔaːkʔ

  1. crow

Descendants

  • Aslian:
    • Senoic:
      • Semnam: ʔkʔaːk
    • Southern:
      • Semelai: ʔkʔɒk
  • Proto-Bahnaric: *-ʔaːk (Sidwell, 2011) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Katuic: *kaʔaak ~ *ʔaʔaak (Sidwell, 2005) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Khasian: *kaʔiːʔ (Sidwell, 2018) (see there for further descendants)
  • Khmeric:
  • Proto-Khmuic: *klʔaːk (Sidwell, 2013) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Monic: *klʔaak (Diffloth, 1984)
    • Proto-Mon: *həɗa̱i̯c
      • Mon: ခဍာ်
    • Proto-Nyah Kur: *kəlʔa̱ak
  • Nicobarese:
    • Nancowry: kakeʔək ("to crow as a chicken")
  • Proto-Palaungic: *kə(l)ʔaːk (Sidwell, 2015) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Vietic: *kr-ʔaːk > *ʔaːk (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