Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/m-raʔ

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: *m-raʔ (Sidwell, 2024, #AA237)

Noun

*m-raʔ

1. person

Descendants

• →? Burmese: မြန်မာ (mranma)
• →? Proto-Malayo-Polynesian: *uʀaŋ

References

• 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
• Michel Ferlus, Formation of Ethnonyms in Southeast Asia