Reconstruction talk:Proto-Austroasiatic/koan

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@Sorjam Could I please ask you where this was found? Wyang (talk) 00:08, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

@Wyang Hi, the character 觀 (OC *koːn) is mentioned, along with 昆 (OC *kuːn), in Ye Xiaofeng (2014) as a possible Austroasitic loan in ancient Chu dialect. According to him, this and several other dialectal words offer a further confirmation for the existence of an Austroasiatic substrate in South China. In the article I've mentioned he quotes a sentence from the 《國語》 where the meaning of the character 觀 appears to be “child, son, offspring”, and he thinks it could be loaned from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kuun ~ *kuən (“child”). Sorjam (talk) 16:01, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! Cited this on 昆. Wyang (talk) 00:37, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

You're welcome! Sorjam (talk) 10:00, 14 October 2018 (UTC)