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Etymology
Per Bray, a compound of بَا (bā, “mouth”) + مُسْت (must, “before, in front of”), i.e. "that which is in front of the mouth". Ultimately from Proto-Dravidian.
Tuttle rejects the Bray's source for the second element of the compound, instead tracing it to unattested *مُس (*mus, “nose”), which he relates to Kumarbhag Paharia (muso, “snot, the nose”), Kurukh (mussō, “running from the nose”), among others (see DED 4909[1]). In particular, Gondi (mus-sōr, “nose”) is a similar compound of "nose" and "mouth".[2]
Noun
بَامُس (bāmus)
- nose
References
- ^ Burrow, T., Emeneau, M. B. (1984) “4909”, in A Dravidian etymological dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- ^ Tuttle, Edwin H. (1936) “bāmus”, in “Review: The Brāhūī Language. Part II: The Brāhūī Problem. Part III: Etymological Vocabulary by Denys Bray”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, volume 56, number 3, page 352 of 350–360
Further reading
- Bray, Denys (1934) “bāmus”, in The Brahui Language, Calcutta, India: Superintendent Government Printing, Part II: The Brāhūī Problem; Part III: Etymological Vocabulary, page 63
- Ali, Liaquat, Kobayashi, Masato (2024) “bāmus”, in Brahui Texts: Glossed and Translated Short Stories and Folktales, Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, page 693