Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/mV-pjam

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: *byam (Matisoff, 2003); *(p/b)yam (STEDT)

For the connection of the Chinese word to here, see Sagart (apud Jacques 2015), and again in Sagart, Jacques et al. (2019) with the Tibetan cognate added.[1]

Verb

*mV-pjam

  1. to float
  2. to fly
    Synonym: *mV-pjər

Descendants

  • Chinese: 泛 (OC *pʰ(r)[o]m-s (B-S)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: འབྱམ ('byam, “to spread”)
  • Proto-Tamangic: *ᴮpʰjaŋ
  • rGyalrongic
    • West rGyalrongic
      • Horpa
      • Khroskyabs: jmbjə̂m
  • Proto-Lolo-Burmese: *byam¹
    • Burmish
    • Proto-Loloish: *(b)-yam¹
  • Proto-Central Naga: *a-jəm
  • Taraon: yem ma

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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