Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/
g-tam ~ g-dam
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: *g-tam ⪤ *g-dam (Matisoff, STEDT)
Verb
*g-tam ~ g-dam
to
talk
, to
speak
Descendants
Old Chinese:
談
/
谈
(
*l'aːm (ZS)
,
“
to talk, to discuss
”
)
;
譚
/
谭
(
*l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ (ZS)
,
“
to talk, to discuss
”
)
Middle Chinese:
談
/
谈
(
dɑm
)
,
譚
/
谭
(
dʌm, dʌmX
)
→
Japanese:
談
(
だん
,
dan
)
Korean:
담
(
談
,
dam
)
Vietnamese:
đàm
(
談
)
Modern Mandarin
Beijing:
談
/
谈
(
tán
)
,
譚
/
谭
(
tán
)
(
tán
,
/tʰan³⁵/
)
Himalayish
Tibeto-Kanauri
Bodic
Tibetan
Sikkimese:
དཏམ
(
dtam
,
“
talk, conversation
”
)
Tibetan:
གཏམ
(
gtam
,
“
talk, conversation
”
)
,
གཏམ་པ
(
gtam pa
,
“
to talk about, to discuss, to explain
”
)
,
གཏོམ་པ
(
gtom pa
,
“
to talk, to speak
”
)
,
འདོམས་པ
(
'doms pa
,
“
to teach, to advise, to counsel
”
)