Reconstruction:Proto-Bodish/ser

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

STEDT presumes an allofamic relationship with *(g)ser (“gold”).

Adjective

*ser[1]

  1. yellow

Descendants

  • Tibetic
    • ⇒ Dzongkha: སེརཔོ (serpo)
    • ⇒ Sherpa: སེར་རུ (ser ru)
    • ⇒ Sikkimese: སེརབ (serb)
    • ⇒ Tibetan: སེར་པོ (ser po)
  • Dakpa-Dzala
    • Dakpa: [Term?] (/⁠si55 ru53⁠/)
    • Dzala: སིར་པོ (sirpo)
  • East Bodish
    • Bumthangkha: སིར་ཏི (sirti), སིར་སིར་མ (sirsirma)
    • Khengkha: སིར་ཏི (sirti)
    • Kurtöp: སིར་ཏི (sirti)

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 90
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