Reconstruction:Proto-Bodish/(g)sʲer

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

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Adjective

*(g)sʲer[1]

  1. wet

Descendants

  • Tibetic
    • Tibetan: གཤེར (gsher), གཤེར་བ (gsher ba)
  • Dakpa-Dzala
    • Dakpa: ཤེར་པ (sherpa)
    • Dzala: ཤེར་པ (sherpa)
  • East Bodish
    • Bumthangkha: ཤིར་བ (shirba), ཤིར་ཕན (shirphan)
    • Kurtöp: ཤིར་ཝ (shirwa)

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 136