Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/mɔːs

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: *mɔːs (Sidwell, 2024, #AA133)
  • Proto-Mon-Khmer: *muujs ~ * muə[j]s (Shorto, 2006, #1496)

Noun

*mɔːs

  1. mosquito

Descendants

  • Proto-Bahnaric: *mɔːs (Sidwell, 2011) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Katuic: *mɔɔs (Sidwell, 2005)
    • Ta'Oi:
      • Ir: mojhʔ
  • Khmeric:
  • Proto-Vietic: *mɔːs (Ferlus, 2007) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Old Chinese: 蚊 (OC *mɯn) (with nominal suffix *-n) (Schuessler, 2007)

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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