Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/pəh

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: *pəh (Sidwell, 2024, #AA398)
  • Proto-Mon-Khmer: *puh ~ *puuh ~ *puəh ~ *pəh (Shorto, 2006, #2029)

Verb

*pəh

  1. to open

Descendants

  • Proto-Bahnaric: *pɔh (Sidwell, 2011) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Katuic: *pəəh (Sidwell, 2005) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Palaungic: *pɤh (Sidwell, 2015) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Vietic: *ɓǝh (Ferlus, 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