Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/ʔmpoːʔ

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: *ʔmpoːʔ (Sidwell, 2024, #AA029)
  • Proto-Mon-Khmer: *mp[ɔ]ʔ (Sidwell, 2024, #105)

Compare Proto-Hmong-Mien *mpeiH (“to dream”) (> Iu Mien mbeix) and perhaps Proto-Austronesian *Sepi ~ *Sipi (“to dream”).

Noun

*ʔmpoːʔ

  1. dream

Verb

*ʔmpoːʔ

  1. to dream

Descendants

  • Proto-Aslian: *ʔəmpuaʔ (Phillips, 2012) (see there for further descendants)
    • Semnam: tapɔʔ
    • Semelai: po
  • Proto-Bahnaric: *ʔmpəw (Sidwell, 2011) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Khasian: *-pʰɔː (Sidwell, 2012) (see there for further descendants)
  • Khmuic:
    • Khmu: hmpoʔ
  • Nicobarese:
    • Nancowry: ʔenfua
  • Proto-Pakanic: *boː (Hsiu, 2016) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Palaungic: *-mpoːʔ (Sidwell, 2015) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Pearic: *po (Headley, 1985)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Vietic: *s-poː (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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