Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/skuq

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: *s-g(r)aw-k (STEDT)

See also Zhang, Jacques & Lai 2019 (p. 81).

The disappearance of the final uvular in rGyalrongic is irregular; due to this irregularity, Jacques suspects a Wanderwort relationship.[1] Miyake suspects Tangut 𗻵 (*kjụ¹) in particular to be borrowed from Middle Chinese 韭 (*kjuwX),[2] but Miyake's explanation cannot account for other rGyalrongic cognates since they start with a sibilant that was already lost in the supposed Middle Chinese etymon. However, the rGyalrongic open syllables can be more easily explained with one straightforward borrowing of Old Chinese 韭 (*s.[k](r)uʔ).

The -o- vowel in Tibetan is irregular, but the same correspondence to Old Chinese -u- is also found in *lmuk (“hat”).

Noun

*skuq

  1. Allium plant
    Hyponym: *b-tsoŋ

Descendants

  • Chinese: 韭 (OC *s.[k](r)uʔ (B-S)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish
  • rGyalrongic
    • West rGyalrongic
      • Horpa
        • Geshiza: skuə (“leek”)
        • Tangut: 𗻵 (*kjụ¹, “(spring) onion”)
      • Khroskyabs: skû (“onion”)
    • East rGyalrongic
      • Japhug: ɕku (“onion”)
      • Situ: ɕkō (Brag-bar), ʃkō (Cogtse)
  • Naic
    • Proto-Naish: *sku (“garlic”)
      • Naxi: gv (/⁠kv̩³³⁠/)
      • Narua: gu (/⁠kv̩˥⁠/)
      • Laze: [Term?] (/⁠fv̩˧⁠/)
  • Jingpho-Asakian
    • ⇒ Jingpho: shakau
  • Tani
    • ⇒ Apatani: byaku’ tale’ (“onion”)

References

  1. ^ Jacques, Guillaume (2014) Esquisse de phonologie et de morphologie historique du tangoute, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 57
  2. ^ Miyake, Marc Hideo (5 September 2010) “Broad Beans”, in Amaravati: Abode of Amritas‎[1]
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