Reconstruction:Proto-Chamic/thun

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 *tahun, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taqun.

Noun

*thun

year (time it takes for the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun)

Descendants

Acehnese: thon
Coastal Chamic:
- Cham:
  - Eastern Cham: ꨔꨭꩆ (thun)
  - Western Cham: thŭn
Highlands Chamic:
- Chru-Northern Chamic:
  - Chru: thun
  - Northern Chamic:
    - Northern Roglai: thut
    - Tsat: tʰun³³
- Jarai: thŭn
- Rade: thŭn

References

Thurgood, Graham (1999) From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change‎, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, page 64

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