Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/smuːcʔ

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: *s<m>uːcˀ (Sidwell, 2024, #AA147)

Compare Proto-Kra-Dai *r-móȶ (“ant”) (Norquest, 2020).

Noun

*smuːcʔ

  1. ant

Descendants

  • Santali: ᱢᱩᱡ (muc’)
  • Khmer: ស្រមោច (srɑmaoc)
  • >? Malay: semut
    • > Indonesian: semut (inherited)
  • >? Old Javanese: sĕmut

References

  • 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
  • Waruno Mahdi (October 2024), “Austroasiatic loanwords in Austronesian languages”, in Wacana‎[2], volume 25, number 3, →DOI, pages 379-80
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