pʔus
Jehai
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare Khmu pʔúus (“to smell bad”). Burenhult says this and other "similarities point to a remarkable stability in odor representation in the Austroasiatic language family".
Verb
[edit]pʔus
- to be musty, to have a musty or moldy smell (like rotting vegetation, old homes, stale food, unwashed clothes or people, some mushrooms, and the feathers of some birds)
Coordinate terms
[edit]- plʔɛŋ (“have a blood-like smell that attracts tigers”), see that entry for more
References
[edit]- Niclas Burenhult, Asifa Majid, Olfaction in Aslian Ideology and Language, Senses & Society, volume 6, issue 1 (2011)