Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/sV-nV-qar

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

A word with double pre-initial.

The pre-initials are probably the remains of a prefixed *sV-na(r) (“nose”).[1]

See also Lai (2023) for more information.[2]

Noun

*sV-nV-qar

  1. phlegm
  2. spit

Descendants

  • Chinese: 涎 (OC *s-N-qa[r] (B-S)) (see there for further descendants)
  • rGyalrongic
    • West rGyalrongic
      • Horpa
        • Geshiza: sqʰar
    • East rGyalrongic
      • Japhug: tɯ-ɴɢar
  • Kho-Bwa
    • Proto-Western Kho-Bwa: *n̥a-qar (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Bodt, Timotheus A. (2024), Proto-Western Kho-Bwa: Reconstructing a community’s past through language (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series; 64)‎[1], Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, pages 162, 217
  2. ^ Lai, Yunfan (2023), “On plosive-nasal correspondences and alternations in Gyalrongic and their possible solutions”, in Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, volume 52, pages 1-39
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