Reconstruction:Proto-Chamic/hujaːn

This Proto-Chamic 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-Chamic

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Chamic *hujan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quzan, from Proto-Austronesian *quzaN.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /huɟaːn/

Noun

*hujaːn

rain

Descendants

Acehnese: ujeuen
Coastal Chamic:
- Cham:
  - Eastern Cham: ꨨꨎꩆ (hajan)
  - Western Cham: jan
Highlands Chamic:
- Chru-Northern Chamic:
  - Chru: xəja:n
  - Northern Chamic:
    - Northern Roglai: hujaːt
    - Tsat: saːn¹¹
- Jarai: hơjan
- Rade: hjan

References

Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008) The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics, Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Thurgood, Graham (1999) From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change‎, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, page 220

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