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Reconstruction:Proto-Mon-Khmer/kuəŋ
Proto-Mon-Khmer
Etymology
- Proto-Mon-Khmer: *kuəŋ ~ *kwaaŋ (Shorto, 2006, #1127)
Similarity to Chinese 公 (OC *C.qˤoŋ) is probably coincidental.
Adjective
*kuəŋ
- male
Noun
*kuəŋ
- male
Descendants
- Aslian: *kɔɔɲ (Phillips, 2012)
- Senoic:
- Semnam: ʔŋkoːɲ
- Temiar: akoj (“uncle”)
- Senoic:
- Bahnaric: *kwəŋ (“male (animal)”), *koːɲ (“male relative”) (Sidwell, 2011) (see there for further descendants)
- Katuic: *kooɲ (Sidwell, 2005)
- Ngeq/Kriang: koːɲ
- Pacoh: conh, ncounh
- Khasian: *kwaŋ (Sidwell, 2018)
- Nicobarese: *koːɲ (Sidwell, 2018)
- Car Nicobarese: kōiny (“male of animals”)
- Central Nicobaric:
- Nancowry: kòin (“husband, male”)
- Palaungic: *kuːɲ (“father”) (Sidwell, 2015) (?)
- Lamet: ʔuːɲ
- P'uman: konˉ
- Pearic:
- Kasong: kʰuːɲ ("father") (?)
- Saoch:
- of Kanchanaburi: ʔuːɲ ("father") (?)
- Vietic: *p-kuːɲʔ (Sidwell, 2007) (see there for further descendants)
See also
- *kan (“female, woman”)