Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/rV-N-təwŋ

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: *rdung (Coblin, 1986)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *r-duŋ (Matisoff, 2003; STEDT)

For comparisons, see STEDT, Schuessler (2007: 196), Hill (2019: 36, 273), and Zhang, Jacques & Lai (2019: 85).

Most reflexes imply a voiced/prenasalized initial, but the Burmish and Jingpho cognates with voiceless aspirated initials force a voiceless-initial root to be posited.

Verb

*rV-N-təwŋ

  1. to hit, strike

Descendants

  • Chinese: (see there for further descendants)
    • 衝 / 冲 (OC *tʰoŋ (B-S), “to charge, clash, collide”)
    • 撞 (OC *[N-t]ˤ<r>oŋ(-s) (B-S), “to hit, collide, strike, bump into”)
  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: རྡུང (rdung)
  • rGyalrongic
    • East rGyalrongic
      • Japhug: ʁndɯ
  • Lolo-Burmese
  • Nungish
    • Drung: dur (“to pound with a pestle”)
  • Jingpho-Asakian
    • Jingpho: htawng (“to kick”)
  • Proto-Tangkhulic: *duŋ
    • Tangkhul Naga: kharung
  • Proto-Karen: *dɔŋᴮ
  • Proto-Tani: *dɯŋ
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