Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/klaːŋ

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: *klaːŋ (Sidwell, 2024, #AA013)
  • Proto-Mon-Khmer: *laaŋ ~ *laiŋ ~ *laŋ (Shorto, 2006, #714)

Compare Proto-Hmong-Mien *qlaŋX (“eagle, hawk”) and Proto-Sino-Tibetan *qə-lə(ŋ~k) (“bird of prey”).

Noun

*klaːŋ

  1. eagle, hawk

Descendants

  • Proto-Aslian: *kəlaaŋ (“eagle”) (Phillips, 2012) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Bahnaric: *klaŋ (“hawk”) (Sidwell, 2011) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Katuic: *kalaaŋ (“hawk”) (Sidwell, 2005) (see there for further descendants)
  • Khmeric:
  • Proto-Khmuic: *klaːŋ (Sidwell, 2013) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Monic: *liŋ-liəŋ (“kite, hawk”) (Diffloth, 1984)
    • Proto-Mon: *kəni̤ə̯ŋ
    • Proto-Nyah Kur: *liŋ-li̤aŋ
  • Munda:
    • Mundari: ʌɽaŋ
    • Sora: ə'daŋ
  • Proto-Nicobarese: *kalaːŋ (Sidwell, 2018) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Pakanic: *laːŋʔ (“eagle”) (Hsiu, 2016) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Palaungic: *klaːŋ (Sidwell, 2015) (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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