Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/doːl

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: *doːl ~ *duəl (Sidwell, 2024, #AA423)
• Proto-Mon-Khmer: *dul (Shorto, 2006, #1741)

There is another similar form with coda *-r, represented by Proto-Bahnaric *dɔːr (whence Koho dor) and Proto-Palaungic *ɗɤr (whence Western Lawa thu).

Noun

*doːl

1. hill, mound

Descendants

• Proto-Katuic: *dɔɔl (Sidwell, 2005) (see there for further descendants)
• Khasic:
  • Khasi: kynton
• Khmeric:
  • Khmer: ទួល (tuəl)

    → Western Cham: du̯al (“hill, mound, knoll”)

• Monic:
  • Old Mon: døl
    • Mon: ဒဵု
• Proto-Vietic: *doːl (Ferlus, 2007) (see there for further descendants)
  • Vietnamese: đồi

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