Reconstruction:Proto-Bodish/riŋ

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 *s-riŋ.

Adjective

*riŋ[1]

  1. long

Reconstruction notes

Among the non-Tibetic Bodish languages, only in Bumthang is the expected e attested. The other Bodish languages may have restored i due to Tibetic influence.

Descendants

  • Tibetic
    • Dzongkha: རིང (ring)
    • Tibetan: རིང (ring)
  • Dakpa-Dzala
    • Dakpa: རིང་ཀོ (ringko)
    • Dzala: རིང་ཀུ (ringku)
  • East Bodish
    • Bumthangkha: རེང་ཤ་ལ (rengshala)
    • Kurtöp: རིང་ཀུ (ringku)

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 87
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