Reconstruction:Proto-Naish/dza

This Proto-Naish 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-Naish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dzaʔ (“to eat”). See also *ndzi (“to eat”).

Noun

*dza

  1. wheat

Descendants

  • Naxi: zzei
  • Narua: zzei

Etymology 2

Tibetan གཞར (gzhar, “to shave, scrape”), which Li associates with *seɣ (“to shave”),[1] is a better (although still imperfect, given the palatalization in Tibetan that does not appear in Naish) phonetic match with *dza.

Verb

*dza

  1. to cut
Descendants
  • Naxi: zzei
  • Narua: zzeiq

Etymology 3

No etymology is assigned by Jacques and Michaud. STEDT wrongly conflates this word with the almost-identical *dzu (“pair”).

Classifier

*dza

  1. Classifier for pairs.
Descendants
  • Naxi: zzeiq
  • Narua: zzei
  • Laze: [Term?] (/⁠dze˥⁠/)

References

  1. ^ Li, Zihe (2020) “原始納西語前冠音的來源與演變 [The Origin and Evolution of Pre-initials in Proto-Naish]”, in Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics‎[1], volume 12, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, page 219

Further reading

  • Jacques, Guillaume, Michaud, Alexis (2011) “Approaching the historical phonology of three highly eroded Sino-Tibetan languages: Naxi, Na and Laze”, in Diachronica‎[2], volume 28, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 468–498
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