Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/N-pu(k)

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: *bu (Schuessler, 2007), *bəw (STEDT)

For the polysemy of "worm" and "snake", compare Old English wyrm.

The connection to 蝮 (fù) is wholeheartedly embraced by Hill (2019),[1] but it also appears as an alternative suggestion in Schuessler (2007). The *(-k) final is reconstructed here assuming this connection.

STEDT would rather select Chinese 蜉 (fú) as a Chinese comparandum, which had an open syllable in older Chinese.

Noun

*N-pu(k)

  1. worm
  2. insect
  3. snake

Descendants

  • Chinese: 蝮 (MC *phjuwk, “some kind of snake”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Bodish: *(')bu
  • Naic
    • Proto-Naish: *bu
      • ⇒ Naxi: bbeediq
      • Narua: bbeu
  • Proto-Lolo-Burmese: *bəw²
    • Burmish
    • Loloish
      • Northern Loloish
        • Nuosu: ꁯꄸ (bbup ddi)

References

  1. ^ Hill, Nathan W. (2019) The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 40
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