Reconstruction:Proto-Bodish/sʲa

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 *sja-n.

Noun

*sʲa

  1. meat, flesh

Reconstruction notes

  • Proto-form not given in Bodt (2023).[1]

Descendants

  • Tibetic
    • Dzongkha: (sha)
    • Sherpa: (sha)
    • Tibetan: (sha)
  • Dakpa-Dzala
    • Dakpa: (sha)
    • Dzala: (sha)
  • East Bodish
    • Bumthangkha: ཤྲ (shra), (sha)
    • Kurtöp: (sha)

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 147