Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/m-hla

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: *m-hla (Matisoff, STEDT); *(m-)hla (Benedict, 1972; LaPolla, 1987)

Noun

*m-hla

  1. soul
  2. god
  3. demon
  4. beautiful

Descendants

  • Kamarupan
    • Kuki-Chin
      /*khlaa/ (VanBik, 2009)
      • Central Chin
        • Mizo: thla (“spirit, soul; god; ghost; shadow, image”)
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Tibetan: ལྷ (lha, “god, deity”)
            • Modern Tibetan (Lhasa): /ɬa˥˧/
      • Tamangic
        *ᴬʰla, ᴬʰlu, ᴬHla, ᴬHlaː (Mazaudon, 1994)
        • Tamang (Sahu): १ला (¹la), १लु (¹lu, “god”)
  • Jingpho-Nung-Asakian
    • Jingpho
      • Jingpho: minla (“ghost”), numla (“spirit, image, soul”), sumla (“picture”)
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
      • Burmese: လှ (hla., “pretty, beautiful”)
    • Loloish: /*ʔ-la¹/ ("soul") (Bradley, 1979)
      • Northern Loloish
        • Yi (Liangshan): ꆠ (hla, “soul, spirit”) (> ꒌꆠ (yyr hla, “ghost, soul, spirit”))
      • Central Loloish
        • Lisu (Northern): ꓦꓻ (h̃ɑ, “soul”) (> ꓞꓳꓻ ꓦꓻ (tsʰo h̃ɑ, “soul (of a dead person)”))

See also

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