Reconstruction:Proto-Mon-Khmer/puuŋ

This Proto-Mon-Khmer 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-Mon-Khmer

Etymology

• Proto-Mon-Khmer: *puuŋ (Shorto, 2006, #610)

Noun

*puuŋ

1. cooked rice, rice mash

Descendants

• → Old Chinese: 飯 (OC *bonʔ, *bons, “cooked rice”)

• Middle Chinese: 飯 (MC bjonX|bjonH, “cooked rice”)
  • Mandarin Chinese: 飯／饭 (fàn, “cooked rice, food”)

• Proto-Bahnaric:
  • Central Bahnaric
    • Bahnar: pūŋ (“mash from which rice-wine is made”)
• Khasian
  • Khasi: jasapung (“cooked rice”)
• Monic: *pooŋ (Diffloth, 1984)
  • Old Mon: [script needed] (pūṅ /⁠puːŋ⁠/, “cooked rice”)
    • Mon: ပုၚ် (pɜŋ, “cooked rice”)

See also

• *paaj (“cooked rice, food”)