Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/m-ljak ~ mrak ~ mruk

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-lyak ⪤ *mrak ⪤ *mruk (Matisoff, STEDT); *m-lyak (Benedict, 1972)

STEDT

Noun

*m-ljak ~ mrak ~ mruk

  1. grass, weeds

Descendants

  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Tibetan: འཇག་མ ('jag ma, “coarse and thick grass; blade (of grass); stalk (of corn)”) (< *ɴ-ljak)
    • Kham-Magar-Chepang
      • Chepang: /maŋʔ/ ("grass (sp.)")
  • Lolo-Burmese: /*mruk ~ mrak/ ("weeds, grass") (Matisoff, 1972)
    • Burmish
    • Loloish: Proto-Loloish: *(C)-mrukᴸ (“grass”) (Bradley, 1979)
      • Central Loloish
        • Lisu: ꓟꓳꓼ (mò̱, “weeds; to weed”)

See also

  • *r-tswa-n (“grass”)
  • *s-jəj (“grass”)
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