Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/pɕuːm
Proto-Austroasiatic
Etymology
- Proto-Austroasiatic: *pɕuːm (Sidwell, 2024, #AA101)
- Proto-Mon-Khmer: *phoom (Shorto, 2006, #1433)
Many descendants of this etymon underwent debuccalization of the medial consonant (*-ɕ- > *-h-). Compare Proto-Austroasiatic *bɕeʔ (“otter”) for a similar case of phonological change.
Verb
*pɕuːm
- to fart
Descendants
- Aslian:
- Jah Hut: puʔhum
- Semai: pehom
- Proto-Bahnaric: *phoːm (Sidwell, 2011) (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Khasian: *ksɛm (Sidwell, 2018) (see there for further descendants)
- Khmeric:
- Khmer: ផោម (phaom)
- Khmuic:
- Khmu: púːm
- Proto-Palaungic: *sɤm (Sidwell, 2015) (see there for further descendants)
- Pearic:
- Chong: pʰuˀm
- Proto-Vietic: *k-səmʔ (Ferlus, 2007) (see there for further descendants)
- Vietnamese: rắm
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