Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/g-tam ~ g-dam

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: *g-tam ⪤ *g-dam (Matisoff, STEDT)

Verb

*g-tam ~ g-dam

  1. to talk, to speak

Descendants

  • Old Chinese: 談 / 谈 (*l'aːm (ZS), “to talk, to discuss”); 譚 / 谭 (*l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ (ZS), “to talk, to discuss”)
    • Middle Chinese: 談 / 谈 (dɑm), 譚 / 谭 (dʌm, dʌmX)

      → Japanese: 談 (だん, ​dan)
      Korean: 담 (談, dam)
      Vietnamese: đàm (談)

      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: 談 / 谈 (tán), 譚 / 谭 (tán) (tán, /tʰan³⁵/)
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Tibetan: གཏམ་པ (gtam pa, “to talk about, to discuss, to explain”), གཏོམ་པ (gtom pa, “to talk, to speak”), འདོམས་པ ('doms pa, “to teach, to advise, to counsel”)
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