Reconstruction:Proto-Bodish/tʰʲuŋ

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

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There is another nigh-identical Bodish adjective, but with an unpalatalized initial, which gave rise to Tibetan ཐུང (thung, “short”).

Jacques further sees a potential link between this word and Tibetan སྨྱུང (smyung, “to reduce”) and ཉུང (nyung, “little”),[1] the latter being from *ŋʲuŋ.

Adjective

*tʰʲuŋ[2]

  1. small
  2. short

Descendants

  • Tibetic
    • Dzongkha: ཆུང་ཀུ (chung ku)
    • Tibetan: ཆུང (chung)
  • East Bodish
    • Bumthangkha: ཐིང་གུ་ལ (thinggula)
    • Khengkha: [script needed] (thin.ko.la)
    • Kurtöp: ཐིང་ཀུ (thingku)

References

  1. ^ Jacques, Guillaume (2013) “On pre-Tibetan semi-vowels”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, volume 76, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 289–300
  2. ^ Bodt, Timotheus Adrianus (2023) “East Bodish revisited”, in Bulletin of Tibetology‎[1], volume 54, number 1, Gangtok: Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, →ISSN, pages 136-137
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