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Reconstruction:Proto-Mon-Khmer/gəp

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: *gəp ~ *gap (Shorto, 2006, #1241)

Compare Proto-Tai *kapᴰ (“with; and”), Middle Chinese 及 (MC *ɡˠiɪp̚), whence Cantonese 及 (gap⁶).

Noun

*gəp[1]

  1. friend

Verb

*gəp

  1. to associate

Descendants
  • → Proto-Chamic: *gəp (“group, other”)[2]
  • Proto-Aslian: *gop (“guest, stranger”)
    • Jahaic:
      • Jehai: gop (“stranger”)
    • Senoic:
      • Semai: gòp (“Malay person”)
      • Temiar: gob
    • Semelaic:
  • Proto-Bahnaric:
    • Central:
      • Tampuan: kṳəp (“friend”)
      • Central South:
        • Bahnar: gơ̆p (“people, someone”)
        • South:
          • Koho: göp (“friend”)
          • Mnong:
            • Biat: gɔp
            • Rölöm: găp (“friend”)
  • Proto-Khasian: *kap (“to meet friend, join”) (Sidwell, 2018)
    • Khasi: kap (“to meet friends”)
  • Khmeric:
    • Khmer: គប់ (kup, “to associate, befriend”)
  • Proto-Vietic:
    • Viet-Muong:

References
  1. Shorto, H. A Mon-Khmer Comparative Dictionary, Ed. Paul Sidwell, 2006. Entry 1241. p. 341
  2. Thurgood, Graham (1999) From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change‎, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, page 132 & 318
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