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Although the label of Proto-Mon-Khmer has mostly been abandoned or rejected, this reconstruction, which sourced from Shorto (2006)'s reconstruction for Proto-Mon-Khmer, currently does not have an appropriate Proto-Austroasiatic reconstruction. This reconstruction therefore should not be taken at face value as a state-of-the-art reconstruction for Proto-Austroasiatic, but instead ought to be treated as a valid cognate set.

Proto-Mon-Khmer: *puuŋ (Shorto, 2006, #610)

*puuŋ

cooked rice, rice mash

→ Old Chinese: 飯 (OC *bonʔ, *bons, “cooked rice”)

Middle Chinese: 飯 (MC bjonX|bjonH, “cooked rice”)
- Mandarin Chinese: 飯／饭 (fàn, “cooked rice, food”)

Proto-Bahnaric:
- Central Bahnaric
  - Bahnar: pūŋ (“mash from which rice-wine is made”)
Khasian
- Khasi: jasapung (“cooked rice”)
Monic: *pooŋ (Diffloth, 1984)
- Old Mon: [script needed] (pūṅ /⁠puːŋ⁠/, “cooked rice”)
  - Mon: ပုၚ် (pɜŋ, “cooked rice”)

*paaj (“cooked rice, food”)