Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/laŋ

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: *laŋ (implicit in Hill, 2019)

See Schuessler (2007: 558) and STEDT.

Verb

*laŋ

  1. to be bright

Descendants

  • Chinese:  / (OC *laŋ (B-S)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Kuki-Chin: *klaaŋ
  • Lolo-Burmese
  • Lepcha: ᰜᰩᰵ (lóng, bright)