From Proto-Katuic *saj, *psaj, from Proto-Mon-Khmer. Cognate with Eastern Bru pasâi, Semai ba'heeq, Jehai bhiʔ, Bahnar phĭ, Khmu biʔ, Mon ဖဲ.
For some other cases where Pacoh (and Katuic in general) has /s/ while other Austroasiatic languages have /h/, see also kixay (“moon”), pixay (“otter”). Although Shorto (2006) chiefly reconstructed these cognate sets with *h, Katuic is probably conservative, with other branches underwent debuccalization.
xay
From Proto-Athabaskan *x̣αy. Cognates include Navajo hai and Dogrib xo.
xay (stem -ghay-)
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | seghayé | naxeghayé | |
| 2nd person | neghayé | ||
| 3rd person | 1) | — | gighayé |
| 2) | meghayé | goghayé | |
| 4th person | yeghayé | ||
| reflexive | sp. | ɂedeghayé | kedeghayé |
| unsp. | deghayé | ||
| reciprocal | — | ɂełeghayé | |
| indefinite | ɂeghayé | ||
| areal | goghayé | ||
1) Used when the subject is a group of human beings
and the object is singular.
2) Used when the previous condition does not apply.
From Proto-Vietic *tʃeː (“to grind, to husk rice”). Related to chày.
xay