Reconstruction:Proto-Bodish/(m)go

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.
This Proto-Bodish entry contains original research. The reconstruction in this entry is based on published research, but the specific form presented here is not found in prior works.

Proto-Bodish

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mV-qow.

Noun

*(m)go

  1. head

Reconstruction notes

  • Dakpa-Dzala words for "head" are borrowings from Tibetan མགོ་གཏད (mgo gtad).
  • Bodt does not identify the East Bodish forms as direct cognates to the Tibetan form,[1] but the East Bodish are compared to the Tibetan anyway by Hill and Van Driem (2015). The first syllable of the East Bodish forms fits the Tibetan word perfectly.

Descendants

  • Tibetic
    • Sherpa: མགོའ (mgo')
    • Tibetan: མགོ (mgo)
  • 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, pages 154-155
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