Reconstruction:Proto-Bodish/(ḥ)waŋ

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 *waŋ.

Verb

*(ḥ)waŋ

  1. to come, arrive
    Synonym: *kʰrak

Reconstruction notes

Odd behaviour seems to permeate the descendants of this root.

  • Bodt reconstructs an *o in this verb,[1] and is confused at how both Dakpa-Dzala and Tibetan agree on *o in this verb. Either Tibetic was the source of the o in Dakpa-Dzala, or that this word had an early wave of Laufer's law rounding.
  • Tibetan ཡོང (yong)'s derivation is uncertain; it could be either due to honorific palatalization (as Jacques puts it) or a regular *w > y shift causing it to phonetically diverge from present stem འོང ('ong). The latter possibility does not explain the Dakpa-Dzala initials, though, since Dakpa-Dzala also usually has *w > y-.

Descendants

  • Tibetic
    • Tibetan: འོང ('ong, “to come”), སོང (song) (past of འགྲོ་བ ('gro ba)), ཡོང (yong, “to come”)
  • Dakpa-Dzala
    • Dakpa: [Term?] (/⁠(ɤ)oŋ35⁠/)
    • Dzala: ཝོང (wong)

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 157
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