Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/lap

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: *s-lap (Matisoff, STEDT)

The rGyalrongic forms are compounds of *lap (as the first element) and a second element only elsewhere found in Sherpa ཤོ་མག (sho mag, “large leaf”).[1]

Noun

*lap

  1. leaf
  2. leaf-like thing

Descendants

  • Chinese: 葉 / 叶 (OC /*l[a]p/ (B-S), /*leb/ (ZS), “leaf”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Proto-Bodish: *(b)lap ma
        • Tibetic
        • Dakpa-Dzala
          • Dakpa: [Term?] (/⁠bla35 ma55⁠/)
          • Dzala: བླབ་མ (blapma)
        • East Bodish
          • Bumthangkha: སླམ་སྦ (slamsba)
          • Khengkha: ལམ་པ (lampa)
          • Kurtöp: ལ́མ་པན ('lampan), ལ́པ་མེན ('lapmen)
  • rGyalrongic
    • West rGyalrongic
      • Horpa
        • ⇒ Geshiza: lbala
        • ⇒ Tangut: 𗟛 (*bạ²)
      • ⇒ Khroskyabs: ɬpʰǽʁ
    • East rGyalrongic
      • ⇒ Japhug: tɤ-jwaʁ
      • ⇒ Situ: ta-jbák (Brag-bar)
      • ⇒ Tshobdun: tɐ-lvaʔ
      • ⇒ Zbu: tɐ-lváʁ
  • Lolo-Burmese
  • Jingpho-Asakian
  • Proto-Northern Naga: *lap

References

  1. ^ Lai, Yunfan (2023) “On plosive-nasal correspondences and alternations in Gyalrongic and their possible solutions”, in Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, volume 52, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1–39
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