Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/lewk

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: *glwak (Matisoff, 2003; STEDT)

Descendants are extremely scarce in non-Sinitic languages; the Burmese and Tibetan words are the only cognates identified.

This word also bears an uncanny resemblance to Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine”).

Verb

*lewk

  1. to shine, flash

Descendants

  • Chinese: (see there for further descendants)
    • 曜 (OC *lewk-s (B-S), “to shine”)
    • 的 (OC *[t-l]ˤewk (B-S), “bright”)
    • 濯 (OC *lˤrewk-s (B-S), “to wash clothes”)
  • Bodish
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
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