Reconstruction:Proto-Naish/sreɣ

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

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-riŋ. Cognate to Tibetan རིང (ring, “long”), Japhug zri (“to be long”) and Burmese ရှည် (hrany).

Adjective

*sreɣ

  1. long

Reconstruction notes

  • Li reconstructs the medial and final as *-re, with an open-syllable rhyme. But this runs into the question of why this word is not a homophone with *sre (“to stir”) in Na (shuae for "stir" and shae for "long"), and having a coda *-ɣ fits better with cognates with traces of final velar nasals elsewhere in Sino-Tibetan.
  • Meanwhile, Jacques and Michaud reconstruct an originally closed rhyme *-iN (equivalent to *-eɣ in Li's system).

Descendants

  • Naxi: sherq
  • Narua: shae

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 (2022) A Naish Historical Phonology: The Rhyme System‎[2], page 9
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