Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/cŋaːjʔ

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: *cŋaːjʔ (Sidwell, 2024, #AA038)
  • Proto-Mon-Khmer: *[c]ŋajʔ ~ *[c]ŋaaj[ ] (Shorto, 2006, #1454)

Adjective

*cŋaːjʔ

  1. distant

Descendants

  • Aslian:
    • Southern:
      • Semaq Beri: ŋaj
  • Proto-Bahnaric: *cŋaːj (Sidwell, 2011) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Katuic: *cŋaaj (Sidwell, 2005) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Khasian: *ʤŋaːj (Sidwell, 2018) (see there for further descendants)
  • Khmeric:
  • Proto-Monic: *ɟŋəj (Diffloth, 1984)
  • Munda:
  • Proto-Palaungic: *cəŋaːj (Sidwell, 2015) (see there for further descendants)
  • Pearic:
    • Chong: ŋaˀj
  • Proto-Vietic: *s-ŋaːjʔ (Ferlus, 2007) (see there for further descendants)
    • Vietnamese: ngái (“(dialectal) far”)

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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