Reconstruction:Proto-Kra/balᴬ

This Proto-Kra 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-Kra

Noun

*balᴬ

1. flower

Descendants

• Laha
  • Laha (Ta Mit): bak³³
  • Laha (Noong Lay): bal³³, baal²

Limited to Laha. Qabiao puŋ³³ / pông³ may have been borrowed from Vietnamese bông.

References

• Ostapirat, Weera (2000) “Proto-Kra”, in Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area‎^[1], volume 23, number 1, pages 1-251.
• Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.