Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/bruʔ

This Proto-Austroasiatic 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.

Proto-Austroasiatic

Etymology

• Proto-Austroasiatic: *bruʔ (Sidwell, 2024, #AA322)
• Proto-Mon-Khmer: *bruuʔ (Shorto, 2006, #182)

Noun

*bruʔ

1. hill, mountain

Descendants

• Proto-Katuic: *ɓruu (“mountain”) (Sidwell, 2005)
  • Bru: bruː
  • Kui: bruː
  • Ngeq: pruː
  • Ong: bruː
• Khasic:
  • Khasi: briew (“person”)
  • Eastern Bru: briew (“person”)
• Munda:
  • Santali: ᱵᱩᱨᱩ (buru, “hill, mountain”)
• Proto-Vietic: *b-ruːʔ (Ferlus, 2007) (see there for further descendants)
  • North Central Vietnamese: rú

References

• Shorto, Harry (2006), Paul Sidwell, Doug Cooper, Christian Bauer, editors, A Mon-Khmer Comparative Dictionary, Canberra: Australian National University. Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN
• Sidwell, Paul (2024), “500 Proto Austroasiatic Etyma: Version 1.0”, in Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society‎^[1], volume 17, number 1, pages i–xxxiii