Reconstruction:Proto-Kra/m-kwənᴬ

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

Noun

*m-kwənᴬ

1. smoke

Descendants

• Lachi
  • Lachi (Tân Lợi): qɑN⁰ pe⁴³
  • Lachi (Jinchang): qaŋ⁴⁴
• Gelao
  • A'ou
    • Gelao (Hongfeng): haŋ⁴² hye⁴² (hye⁴² = 'fire')
    • Mulao: aŋ²⁴

References

• 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.