Reconstruction:Proto-Chamic/hulat

This Proto-Chamic 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-Chamic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quləj (“maggot, caterpillar, larva of a metamorphosing insect”), from Proto-Austronesian *quləj (“type of small worm”).

Noun

*hulat

1. worm

Descendants

• Acehnese: ulat
• Coastal Chamic
  • Eastern Cham: ꨨꨤꩀ (halak)
  • Western Cham: حلاک (hlak)
• Highlands Chamic
  • Chru–Northern Chamic
    • Chru: həlaʔ
    • Northern Roglai: hulaʔ
  • Jarai–Rhade
    • Jarai: hlăt, hluăt
    • Rade: hluăt
    • Bih: ulăt, uluăt

References

• Thurgood, Graham (1999) From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change‎^[1], Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, page 291