< Reconstruction:Proto-Mon-Khmer
Reconstruction:Proto-Mon-Khmer/muh
Proto-Mon-Khmer
Etymology
- Proto-Mon-Khmer: *muh ~ *muuh ~ *muus (Shorto, 2006, #2045)
Compare Santali ᱢᱩ (mu, “nose”).
Noun
*muh
- nose
Descendants
- Aslian: *mɔɔh (Phillips, 2012)
- Jahaic:
- Jahai: [mɔh]
- Senoic:
- Semai: moh
- Temiar: moh
- Semelaic:
- Semelai: [muh]
- Jahaic:
- Bahnaric: *muh (Sidwell, 2011) (see there for further descendants)
- Katuic: *moh (Sidwell, 2005)
- Bru: [mṳh]
- Kui: [mṳh]
- Pacoh: móuh
- Khmeric:
- Khmer: ច្រមុះ (crɑmoh)
- Khmuic: *mu/ɔh (Sidwell, 2013)
- Khmu: [muh]
- Mlabri: [mɔh]
- T'in: [moh]
- Mangic:
- Bolyu: [mi³¹]
- Mang: [myː¹]
- Monic:
- Old Mon: moḥ
- Mon: မိုဟ် (mùh)
- Old Mon: moḥ
- Nicobaric: *moah (Sidwell, 2018)
- Car: meh
- Central Nicobaric:
- Nancowry: moah, moaṅh
- Palaungic: *muus (Sidwell, 2010)
- Palaung: mūh
- Lawa: [maïh]
- Vietic: *muːs (Ferlus, 2007) (see there for further descendants)