Reconstruction:Proto-Naish/seɣ

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

See Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-sin (“liver”).

Noun

*seɣ

  1. liver
Descendants
  • Naxi: serl (/⁠sɚ⁵⁵⁠/)
  • Narua: seeq (/⁠si˩˥⁠/)
  • Laze: [Term?] (/⁠si˧⁠/)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *siŋ ~ sik.

Noun

*seɣ

  1. wood
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Naxi: ser (/⁠sɚ³³⁠/)
  • Narua: see (/⁠si˧⁠/)
  • Laze: [Term?] (/⁠si˧⁠/)

Etymology 3

Etymology unclear; Li's comparandum of Tibetan གཞར (gzhar, “to shave, scrape”) is phonetically incompatible.

Verb

*seɣ

  1. to shave
  2. to scrape
Reconstruction notes
  • Jacques and Michaud omit Naxi serl.
Descendants
  • Naxi: serl
  • Narua: seeq
  • Laze: [Term?] (/⁠si˧si˧˥⁠/)

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
  • 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[2], volume 12, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, page 219
  • Li, Zihe (2022) A Naish Historical Phonology: The Rhyme System‎[3], page 30
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