Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/mjaŋ

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: *m-jaŋ (Schuessler, 2007)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *m-(r/y)aŋ (STEDT)

Sagart, Jacques et al. (2019)[1] accept comparison between the Japhug and Tibetan words. The Chepang word is compared to the Tibetan by Schuessler (2007:181). Schuessler also puts the Chinese word here but the d- initial remains an unresolved problem; he wonders if it is a secondary insertion.

Comparison to Burmese မြည်း (mrany:) requires an allofam *mriŋ, implying that the yod inferrable from Tibetan, Chepang and Japhug would be a secondary lenition of *r.

Verb

*mjaŋ

  1. to taste
  2. to experience

Descendants

  • >? Chinese: 嘗 / 尝 (OC *Cə.daŋ (B-S), *djaŋ (Schuessler)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish
  • rGyalrongic
    • West rGyalrongic
      • Horpa
        • Geshiza: vjə
      • Khroskyabs: vdə́
    • East rGyalrongic
      • Japhug: rɲo
  • Lolo-Burmese
  • Chepangic
    • Chepang: याङ्‌सा

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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