Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/ɓaːr

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: *ɓaːr (Sidwell, 2024, #AA055)
  • Proto-Mon-Khmer: *ɓaar (Shorto, 2006, #1562)

Shorto (2006) reconstructs Pre-Mon-Khmer *biʔaar > PMK *ɓaar, which in turn gave rise to Pre-Khmer *[ɓ]ir and pre-Northern-Mon-Khmer *ʔaar.

Numeral

cardinal number
2 Previous: *muəjʔ
Next: *peːʔ

*ɓaːr

  1. two

Descendants

  • Aslian:
    • Semelaic:
      • Chewong: ber
  • Proto-Bahnaric: *ɓaːr (Sidwell, 2011) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Katuic: *ɓaar (Sidwell, 2005) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Khasian: *ʔaːr (Sidwell, 2018) (see there for further descendants)
  • Khmeric:
  • Proto-Khmuic: *baːr (Sidwell, 2013) (see there for further descendants)
  • Monic:
  • Proto-Munda: *bar (Rau, 2019)
  • Proto-Nicobarese: *ʔaː (Sidwell, 2018) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Pakanic: *ɓi (Hsiu, 2016) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Palaungic: *ləʔaːr (Sidwell, 2015) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Vietic: *haːr (Ferlus, 2007) (see there for further descendants)
    • Vietnamese: hai

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