Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/kəwk

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/ʔ)uk (STEDT)

The diphthong *əw is due to Hill (2019).

Verb

*kəwk

  1. to bend

Derived terms

  • *N-kəwk (anticausative)
    • Chinese: 局 (OC *N-kʰ(r)ok (B-S)) (see there for further descendants)
    • rGyalrongic
      • East rGyalrongic
        • Japhug: ŋgɤɣ (“to be bent”)
    • Lolo-Burmese

Descendants

  • Chinese: 曲 (OC *kʰ(r)ok (B-S)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: འགུགས ('gugs)
  • rGyalrongic
    • East rGyalrongic
      • Japhug: kɤɣ
  • Naic
    • Proto-Naish: *kʰu (“year”)
      • Naxi: kvl
      • Narua: kuq
      • Laze: [Term?] (/⁠kʰv˧˥⁠/)
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