Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/mɔːs

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: *mɔːs (Sidwell, 2024, #AA133)
• Proto-Mon-Khmer: *muujs ~ * muə[j]s (Shorto, 2006, #1496)

Noun

*mɔːs

1. mosquito

Descendants

• Proto-Bahnaric: *mɔːs (Sidwell, 2011) (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Katuic: *mɔɔs (Sidwell, 2005)
  • Ta'Oi:
    • Ir: mojhʔ
• Khmeric:
  • Khmer: មូស (muuh)
• Proto-Vietic: *mɔːs (Ferlus, 2007) (see there for further descendants)
  • Vietnamese: muỗi
• → Old Chinese: 蚊 (OC *mɯn) (with nominal suffix *-n) (Schuessler, 2007)

References

• Shorto, Harry (2006), Sidwell, Paul, Doug Cooper and 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