Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/C-roq

This Proto-Sino-Tibetan 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-Sino-Tibetan

Reconstruction

  • Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *?
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *k/p/s-rwak (Matisoff, STEDT); *rwak (Benedict, 1972; LaPolla, 1987); *g-rwak (French, 1983)

A number of prefixes could be attached to this root, with each of the prefixes representing a contraction of another etymon. The *k- suffix was found in a number of other Lolo-Burmese (and rGyalrongic, per Prins 2011 and 2016) animal terms; the *s- prefix was a contraction of *sja‑n (“meat”); and the *p- suffix was a contraction of *bəw (“insect”).

Noun

*C-roq

  1. ant

Reconstruction notes

According to Hill (2019), the initial consonant of this word was some sort of uvular stop.[1]

Descendants

  • Old Chinese: 蚼 /*qʰˤ(r)oʔ/ (B-S)
  • Himalayish
  • rGyalrongic
    • East rGyalrongic
      • possibly Situ: (kʰ)oroʔk
  • Tani
    *ruk (Sun, 1993)
    • Western Tani
      • Apatani: taruʔ
      • Nyishi: tarup
    • Eastern Tani
  • Nungish
    • Anong: sərɔ
  • Lolo-Burmese: *p-rwakᴴ (Matisoff, 2003)

References

  1. ^ Hill, Nathan W. (2019) The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 79, 245
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