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Proto-Western Kho-Bwa
Etymology
Perhaps related to Old Chinese m₂-, used to form body-part terms, e.g. 肚 (*m-tˤaʔ, “stomach”), 頭 / 头 (*ˤo, “head”).
Prefix
*ma-[1]
- (anatomy) forms body part terms
Derived terms
References
- ^ Bodt, Timotheus A. (2024) Proto-Western Kho-Bwa: Reconstructing a community’s past through language (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series; 64), Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 166