Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/ʔəm

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: *ʔam (Matisoff, 2003; STEDT)

The word sometimes shifted to mean "rice" (Sagart, 2018). Sagart, Jacques et al. (2019) also speculate that this verb specifically referred to the consumption of liquid foods like gruel.[1]

Verb

*ʔəm

  1. to eat, drink

Descendants

  • Chinese: 飲 / 饮 (OC *q(r)[u]mʔ (B-S)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Nungish
    • ⇒ Drung: vmbeu (“rice”), vmchvl (“rice seedling”), vm'lung (“unhusked rice”)
    • Rawang: vm
  • Proto-Karen: *Ɂamᴮ (“to eat”)
  • Proto-Tani: *am (“rice plant”), *am-bɯn (“uncooked rice”)
  • Dhimal: आम्‍लि (“to drink”)
  • Chepangic
    • Chepang: आम्‍ह् (“cooked grains”), याम् (“rice plant”)

References

  1. ^ Sagart, Laurent; Jacques, Guillaume; Lai, Yunfan; Ryder, Robin J.; Thouzeau, Valentin; Greenhill, Simon J.; List, Johann-Mattis (2019), “Supplementary Information for the Paper “Dated Language Phylogenies Shed Light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan languages””, in PNAS‎[1], volume 116, number 21
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