Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/mraːkʔ

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

A pair of male and female *mraːkʔ.

Etymology

• Proto-Austroasiatic: *mraːkʔ (Sidwell, 2024, #AA244)
• Proto-Mon-Khmer: *mraik (Shorto, 2006, #416)

Compare Proto-Dravidian *mayVr (“peacock”) (whence Tamil மயில் (mayil) and Malayalam മയിൽ (mayil)).

Noun

*mraːkʔ

1. peacock

Descendants

• Proto-Bahnaric: *braːk (Sidwell, 2011)
  • Central Bahnaric:
    • Bahnar: ămră

      → Malay: merak

      → Old Javanese: mrak

  • South Bahnaric:
    • Sre [Koho]: bra
    • Chrau: vraq

      → Proto-Chamic: *əmraːk (> Acehnese: meurak (inherited))

• Proto-Katuic: *braak ~ *raak (Sidwell, 2005)
  • Eastern Bru: riac
  • Pacoh: rac
• Monic:
  • Old Mon: mrek, mreṅ
    • Mon: မြာ် (pəràik)
• Munda:
  • North Munda:
    • Santali: ᱢᱟᱨᱟᱜ (marak’)
  • South Munda:
    • Kharia: ma'raʔ
    • Sora: mara
• Nicobarese:
  • Car Nicobarese: fum-rech (fɯmɾec)
• →? Proto-Karen: *braɁᴰ (“peacock”)
  • S'gaw Karen: ထိၣ်ပှာ် (hṭoh̀ phgạ)

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