Reconstruction:Proto-Bodish/(s)bal

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 *sbal.

Noun

*(s)bal[1]

  1. frog

Descendants

  • Tibetic
    • Tibetan: སྦལ་པ (sbal pa)
  • Dakpa-Dzala
    • Dakpa: [Term?] (/⁠beː35 pa53⁠/), [Term?] (/⁠pai55 po55⁠/)
    • Dzala: པེ་པོ (pepo), པའེ་པོ (pa'epo)
  • East Bodish
    • Bumthangkha: བ་བའི (babai), བའི་ཕའི (baiphai)
    • Khengkha: བའེ་པ་ལ (ba'epala)

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 97