Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/mV-tswaj

This Proto-Sino-Tibetan 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-Sino-Tibetan

Reconstruction

  • Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *m-dzyway (Matisoff, STEDT); *m-jway (Matisoff, 1985)

Chinese 齒 / 齿 (chǐ), listed by Matisoff (STEDT) as a reflex, is probably not related. Other roots for "tooth": *sV-wa, *d-ŋa.

The double medial glides *-yw- in STEDT are posited solely to account for the palatalization in Tibetan མཆེ་བ (mche ba). The double medial reconstruction is not necessary, as *-w- as a medial is known to trigger the palatalization of preceding velar stops before front vowels in Tibetan;[1] a similar development could have caused the palatalization of the affricate in མཆེ་བ (mche ba).

Noun

*mV-tswaj

  1. tooth, tusk

Descendants

  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: མཆེ་བ (mche ba, “canine tooth, fang, tusk”)
  • rGyalrongic
    • East rGyalrongic
  • Naic
    • Proto-Naish: *dzwal
      • Naxi: zzaiq (/⁠dza²¹⁠/)
      • ⇒ Narua: zzhuaexie (/⁠ɖʐwæ˩hi˩⁠/)
    • Shixing: [Term?] (/⁠dʑɥɛ³³ke⁵⁵⁠/)
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
    • Loloish
      • Northern Loloish
        • Yi (Liangshan): ꎐ (rry, “tooth”) (> ꎐꂷ (rry ma, “tooth”))

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 143
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.