Reconstruction:Proto-Kra/balᴬ
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This Proto-Kra 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-Kra
[edit]Noun
[edit]*balᴬ
Descendants
[edit]- Laha
- Laha (Ta Mit): bak³³
- Laha (Noong Lay): bal³³, baal²
Limited to Laha. Qabiao puŋ³³ / pông³ may have been borrowed from Vietnamese bông.
References
[edit]- Ostapirat, Weera (2000) “Proto-Kra”, in Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area[1], volume 23, number 1, pages 1-251.
- Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.