Reconstruction:Proto-Chamic/buya

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This Proto-Chamic 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-Chamic

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *buhaya, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buqaya, from Proto-Austronesian *buqaya.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /buya/

Noun

*buya

crocodile

Descendants

Acehnese: buya
Coastal Chamic:
- Haroi: pəyɨa
- Cham:
  - Eastern Cham: ꨝꨪꨢꨩ (biya)
  - Western Cham: ꨝꨢꨩ (baya)
Highlands Chamic:
- Chru–Northern Chamic:
  - Chru: bia
  - Northern Chamic:
    - Northern Roglai: bia
- Bih: puya
- Jarai: bia
- Rade: mơya

Further reading

Thurgood, Graham (1999) From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change‎, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, page 286

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