Reconstruction:Proto-Hmongic/kɛŋᴮ

This Proto-Hmongic 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-Hmongic

Etymology

Compare Proto-Tai *kuːᴬ (“I”) and Proto-Austronesian *ku (“me”).[1]

Pronoun

*kɛŋᴮ

  1. singular first-person pronoun: I, me

Descendants

  • White Hmong: kuv

References

  1. ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010), Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, pages 217-8; 275.
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