Reconstruction:Proto-Bodish/(g)zik

This Proto-Bodish 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-Bodish

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-rtsik.

Noun

*(g)zik

  1. leopard

Reconstruction notes

  • Bodt for some reason omits the pre-initial g- in Tibetan from his Proto-Bodish reconstruction *dzik[1] (which, according to Jacques, was an animal prefix[2]). This pre-initial is included here.
  • Other Bodish descendants have an i instead of expected e; Bodt suspects Tibetic influence in many such cases, and thus they are not listed here.

Descendants

  • Tibetic
    • Dzongkha: གཟིག (gzig)
    • Sherpa: གཟིག (gzig)
    • Sikkimese: གཟིག (gzig)
    • Tibetan: གཟིག (gzig)
  • East Bodish
    • Khengkha: ཟེག (zek)

References

  1. ^ Bodt, Timotheus Adrianus (2023) “East Bodish revisited”, in Bulletin of Tibetology‎[1], volume 54, number 1, Gangtok: Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, →ISSN, page 87
  2. ^ Jacques, Guillaume (2014) “On Coblin's Law”, in Richard VanNess Simmons, editor, Studies in Chinese and Sino-Tibetan Linguistics: Dialect, Phonology, Transcription and Text, Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 158
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