Reconstruction:Proto-Bodish/nene

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

Reduplication of *ane, an irregular development of Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nij (“aunt”).

Noun

*nene

  1. aunt (father's sister, or maternal uncle's wife)

Reconstruction notes

Absent in Bodt (2023). But since Bumthang attests multiple forms with the characteristic *e > *i shift in inherited vocabulary, there must have been a Proto-Bodish ancestral form of this word.

Descendants

  • Tibetic
    • Tibetan: ནེ་ནེ་མོ (ne ne mo)
  • East Bodish
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