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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.
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Proto-Naish
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kaʔ; compare Tibetan ཁ་བ (kha ba, “bitter”) and Burmese ခါး (hka:, “bitter”).
Adjective
*kʰa
- bitter
Descendants
- Naxi: ka (/kʰɑ³³/)
- Narua: kha (/qʰɑ˥/)
- Laze: [Term?] (/kʰɑ˧/)
Further reading
- Jacques, Guillaume, Michaud, Alexis (2011) “Approaching the historical phonology of three highly eroded Sino-Tibetan languages: Naxi, Na and Laze”, in Diachronica[1], volume 28, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 468–498