Reconstruction:Proto-Kra/jəlᴬ

This Proto-Kra 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-Kra

Alternative reconstructions

• *jalᴬ

Etymology

Cognate with Proto-Austronesian *quzaN

Noun

*jəlᴬ

1. rain

Descendants

• Qabiao: ṣau²¹³
  • Qabiao (Phó Là): săw⁴
  • Qabiao (Phó Là): săw⁵
• Laha
  • Laha (Ta Mit): tʰɛn³³ ʑɛn³³
  • Laha (Noong Lay): ʑal³³, dʑalʔ⁴⁴, jạl²
• Buyang
  • Paha: jin³¹

Limited to Southern Kra: Qabiao, Laha, and Paha.

References

• Ostapirat, Weera (2000) “Proto-Kra”, in Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area‎^[1], volume 23, number 1, pages 1-251.
• Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.