Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/kum

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: *gum ⪤ *kum (Matisoff, 2003); *(g/k)um (STEDT)

For the rGyalrongic descendants, see Lai (2025).[1]

Verb

*kum

  1. to kill
    Synonym: *sat

Descendants

  • Chinese: 戡 (OC *[kʰ]ˤ[ə]m (B-S)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: འགུམས ('gums, “to kill”), འགུམ ('gum, “to die”)
  • rGyalrongic
    • East rGyalrongic
      • ⇒ Situ: tə-mbə́m (Brag-bar), tə-mgām (“corpse”) (Somang)

References

  1. ^ Lai, Yunfan (2025) “Thoughts on the Etyma for ‘Corpse’ in Gyalrongic Languages”, in Transactions of the Philological Society‎[1], volume 123, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 65–76
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