Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/liəmʔ

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: *liəmʔ ~ *liːmʔ (Sidwell, 2024, #AA119)
  • Proto-Mon-Khmer: *[c]limʔ ~ *[c]liəmʔ ~ *[c]laim[ ] (Shorto, 2006, #1409)

Resemblance to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ljam (whence 舔 (OC *l̥ˤ[i]mʔ)) is probably coincidental.

Verb

*liəmʔ

  1. to lick

Descendants

  • Aslian:
    • Senoic:
      • Temiar: lɛp “taste”
  • Proto-Khasian: *ɟnlɛɛm (Sidwell, 2012) (infixed derivative)
    • Khasi: jylliem (“(of a dog) to lick lips”)
  • Mangic:
    • Bolyu: ljim³¹
  • Proto-Vietic: *-lɛːmʔ (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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