Reconstruction:Proto-Bodish/sa gʷan

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

The first element is *sa (“soil”).

Noun

*sa gʷan

  1. seed

Reconstruction notes

  • Tibetan has an irregular contraction of this word: *sa gʷan > *sa gon > son, although Bodt believes that the second element-initial consonant was still uvular while this contraction was occurring.[1]

Descendants

  • Tibetic
    • Tibetan: སོན (son)
  • Dakpa-Dzala
    • Dakpa: ས་གོན (sagon /⁠sa55gon55⁠/)
    • Dzala: ས་གོན (sagon)
  • East Bodish
    • Kurtöp: ས་ཝན (sawan)

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 152
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