Reconstruction:Proto-Mon-Khmer/puuŋ

This Proto-Mon-Khmer 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.

Although the label of Proto-Mon-Khmer has mostly been abandoned or rejected, this reconstruction, which sourced from Shorto (2006)'s reconstruction for Proto-Mon-Khmer, currently does not have an appropriate Proto-Austroasiatic reconstruction. This reconstruction therefore should not be taken at face value as a state-of-the-art reconstruction for Proto-Austroasiatic, but instead ought to be treated as a valid cognate set.

Proto-Mon-Khmer

Etymology

• Proto-Mon-Khmer: *puuŋ (Shorto, 2006, #610)

Noun

*puuŋ

1. cooked rice, rice mash

Descendants

• → Old Chinese: 飯 (OC *bonʔ, *bons, “cooked rice”)

• Middle Chinese: 飯 (MC bjonX|bjonH, “cooked rice”)
  • Mandarin Chinese: 飯／饭 (fàn, “cooked rice, food”)

• Proto-Bahnaric:
  • Central Bahnaric
    • Bahnar: pūŋ (“mash from which rice-wine is made”)
• Khasian
  • Khasi: jasapung (“cooked rice”)
• Monic: *pooŋ (Diffloth, 1984)
  • Old Mon: [script needed] (pūṅ /⁠puːŋ⁠/, “cooked rice”)
    • Mon: ပုၚ် (pɜŋ, “cooked rice”)

See also

• *paaj (“cooked rice, food”)