Reconstruction:Proto-Bodish/ŋa

This Proto-Bodish 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-Bodish

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa.

Pronoun

*ŋa (plural *ŋet)

  1. I, me (1st-person singular pronoun)

Reconstruction notes

Bodt posits a complicated series of inter-Bodish borrowings because the attested forms are difficult for him to straightforwardly derive from Proto-Bodish *ŋa(s).[1] A simpler explanation would be desirable.

Descendants

  • Tibetic
    • Dzongkha: ང (nga)
    • Sherpa: ང (nga)
    • Tibetan: ང (nga)
  • Dakpa-Dzala
    • Dakpa: ངེ (nge)
    • Dzala: ངེ (nge)
  • East Bodish

References

  1. ^ Bodt, Timotheus Adrianus (2023) “East Bodish revisited”, in Bulletin of Tibetology‎[1], volume 54, number 1, Gangtok: Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, →ISSN, page 126
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