English
acault
Acault comes from Burmese အခြောက် ‘dry article’, and goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-glak ~ m-glaŋ ‘cold, freeze’.
- Proto-Sino-Tibetanprehistoric (reconstructed)*m/s-glak ~ m-glaŋ‘cold, freeze’reconstructed
- Burmesemodernခြောက်‘dry, drab’
- Burmese, derivedmodernအခြောက်a.hkrauk /ăhcauʔ/‘dry article’
- Englishearliest quotation 1990acault
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Sino-Tibetanprehistoric (reconstructed)*m/s-glak ~ m-glaŋ‘cold, freeze’reconstructed
- Burmesemodernခြောက်‘dry, drab’
- Burmese, derivedmodernအခြောက်a.hkrauk /ăhcauʔ/‘dry article’
- Englishearliest quotation 1990acault
Earliest quotation: 1990, Eli Coleman, Paradigatic Changes in Our Understanding of Homosexuality: “Because Manguedon is the spirit who controls success and…”
The story
Apparently introduced before 1987 by Coleman et al. (see quotation below) who had an "inability to speak the local languages" and a "lack of training in anthropology".
Every English word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-glak ~ m-glaŋ
Today it means
noun A male who has special role in Myanmar folk religion and behaves in a way usually associated with women.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-glak ~ m-glaŋ / acault