Reconstruction:Proto-Mon-Khmer/(ʔ)boʔ

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 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 to a language, which may be of Austroasiatic descent, ancestral to Indonesia prior to the arrival of Western Malayo-Polynesian speakers.

Noun

 * 1) mother

Descendants

 * Aslian:
 * Khasic:
 * (?) Nicobaric:
 * Monic:
 * Pearic:
 * Pear: pè
 * Western:
 * Chong: peː
 * (Ferlus, 2007)
 * Pearic:
 * Pear: pè
 * Western:
 * Chong: peː
 * (Ferlus, 2007)