Reconstruction:Proto-Austronesian/ənəm

This Proto-Austronesian 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-Austronesian

Proto-Austronesian cardinal numbers
 <  5 6 7  > 
    Cardinal : *ənəm

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ənəm/

Etymology

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. From dualism of three *du- +‎ *dum, from Proto-Austronesian: *duma.

Same dualism numeral concept in:

  • Proto-Austronesian: *duSa probably from *du- +‎ *əsa.
  • Makatao: ra-hurum from hu ("dual") + ruma("three")
  • Truku: mataru from ma ("dual?") + taru ("three")
  • Thao: katuru from ka ("dual?") + turu ("three")[1]
Sound Changes Table
origin form nasalization form transition form pra-final form
*dudum *dundum *undum *unum

[2]

Numeral

*ənəm

  1. six

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Li, Paul Jen-kuei (2006) “Numeral Systems in Formosan Languages”, in The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar‎[1], Routledge
  2. ^ Pater, Joe (2004) “Austronesian nasal substitution and other NC effects”, in NELS 34‎[2]
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*enem”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.