Reconstruction:Proto-Austroasiatic/ca(ː)ʔ

Etymology

 * Proto-Austroasiatic: *ca(ː)ʔ (Sidwell, 2024, #AA020)
 * Proto-Mon-Khmer: *caʔ (Shorto, 2006, #8)

Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to eat

Descendants

 * Aslian: *caaʔ (Phillips, 2012)
 * Jah Hut: caʔ
 * Jahaic:
 * Cheq Wong: cəʔ
 * Kensiu: ciʔ
 * Senoic:
 * Semelaic:
 * Mah Meri: ca
 * Semaq Beri: ca
 * Semelai: ca
 * (Sidwell, 2011)
 * (Sidwell, 2005)
 * Bru: caː
 * Kui: caː
 * Ngeq: caː
 * Khasic:
 * Khmeric:
 * Old Khmer: cya ("to eat")
 * Middle Khmer: sìː ("to eat")
 * Modern Khmer: ,
 * perhaps also
 * (Sidwell, 2013)
 * Mangic:
 * Mang: θaː³
 * Monic:
 * (Diffloth, 1986)
 * Old Mon: caʔ
 * Modern Mon:, ,
 * Nicobaric:
 * Palaungic:
 * Pearic:
 * (Headley, 1985)
 * Vietic:
 * (Diffloth, 1986)
 * Old Mon: caʔ
 * Modern Mon:, ,
 * Nicobaric:
 * Palaungic:
 * Pearic:
 * (Headley, 1985)
 * Vietic: