Reconstruction:Proto-Mon-Khmer/(ʔ)boʔ

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: *(ʔ)boʔ (Shorto, 2006, #113)

Likely a nursery word, although its distribution throughout the various branches of Mon-Khmer suggests that it could be genuinely ancient.

Shorto (2006) and Blust & Trussel (ACD) relate Javanese ibu and Malay ibu to a language, which may be of Austroasiatic descent, ancestral to Indonesia prior to the arrival of Western Malayo-Polynesian speakers.

Noun

*(ʔ)boʔ

mother

Descendants

Aslian:
- Temiar: bo
- Jehai: baboʔ
Khasic:
- Pnar: bei, be
(?) Nicobaric:
- Car Nicobarese: popo (interjection)
Monic:
- Mon: ၝောံ (bɜ̀ˀ, “female of animals”)
Pearic:
- Pear: pè
- Western:
  - Chong: peː
Proto-Vietic: *-bəːʔ (“wife”) (Ferlus, 2007) (see there for further descendants)
>? Old Javanese: babu
- > Javanese: ꦧꦧꦸ (babu) (inherited)
  - → Brunei Malay: babu
  - → Malay: babu
  - → Indonesian: babu
- → Balinese: ᬩᬩᬸ (babu)

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