Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/kaŋ

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: *kang (Coblin, 1986)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *s-gaŋ (Matisoff, 2003; STEDT)

Ao, Jingpho, and Kuki-Chin apparently show traces of a pre-initial that is not the *s- given in the STEDT; Ao implies *tV- while Jingpho and Kuki-Chin imply *lV-.

Noun

*kaŋ

  1. hill
  2. mountain

Descendants

  • Chinese: 岡 / 冈 (MC *kang) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: སྒང (sgang)
  • Proto-Lolo-Burmese: *kaŋ¹
    • Burmish
    • Proto-Loloish: *kaŋ¹
  • Nungish
    • Drung: gong (“slope”)
  • Jingpho-Asakian
    • Jingpho: lakang (“frenum, ridge”)
  • Central Naga
    • Ao: tü khong
  • Proto-Kuki-Chin: *klaaŋ
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