Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/ʔan

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: *ʔan (Sidwell, 2024, #AA260)
  • Proto-Mon-Khmer: *[ʔ]anʔ ~ *ʔən[ ] (Shorto, 2006, #1115)

Pronoun

*ʔan

  1. he, she, it (third person singular pronoun)

Descendants

  • Katuic:
    • Pacoh: án
  • Munda:
    • Mundari: ɛn
    • Sora: anin
  • Nicobar:
    • Car Nicobarese: an
  • Proto-Palaungic: *ʔan (Sidwell, 2015) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Vietic: *hanʔ (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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