Reconstruction:Proto-Bodish/smrul

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-mrul.

Noun

*smrul

  1. snake

Reconstruction notes

The comparative data appears in Bodt (2023)[1] although it is unclear if he reconstructed a proto-form.

Descendants

  • Tibetic
    • Tibetan: སྦྲུལ (sbrul)
  • Dakpa-Dzala
    • Dakpa: མྲུའི (mru'i), སྨུ་རི (smuri /⁠mu35.ri55⁠/)
    • Dzala: མྲེ (mre)

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 115