Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/kraʔ

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: *kraʔ (Sidwell, 2024, #AA073)
  • Proto-Mon-Khmer: *kraʔ (Shorto, 2006, #162)

Compare Proto-Hmong-Mien *kləuX (“road”) (Ostapirat, 2018) and Old Chinese 道 (OC *[kə.l]ˤuʔ).

Noun

*kraʔ

  1. road, way
    Synonym: *glɔːŋ

Descendants

  • Proto-Katuic: *krnaa (Sidwell, 2005) (see there for further descendants) (infixed derivative)
  • Proto-Monic: *trəw (“path, road”) (Diffloth, 1984)
    • Proto-Mon: *kəra̱o̯
    • Proto-Nyah Kur: *tərə̱w
  • Proto-Munda: **kOrA (Sidwell & Rau, 2015) (provisional reconstruction)
    • Mundari: hɔɾa
  • Proto-Nicobarese: *kaɹiː (Sidwell, 2018) (see there for further descendants) (metathesis)
    • Central Nicobarese: kaji
  • Proto-Palaungic: *kraːʔ (Sidwell, 2015) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Vietic: *k-raːʔ (Ferlus, 2007) (see there for further descendants)
    • Vietnamese: sá

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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