Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/mV-ʔaʔ

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: *ʔraɣ (Coblin, 1986)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *m-ʔa (Matisoff, STEDT); *(m-)a (Benedict, 1972; Weidert, 1987; French, 1983); *(m-)ɑ (Chou, 1972); *(m-)a(*C) (Coblin, 1986)

Probably a sound-symbolic or onomatopoeic term (Schuessler 2007; p. 550).

Adjective

*mV-ʔaʔ

  1. dumb, mute

Descendants

  • Chinese: 啞 / 哑 (OC /*ʔˤraʔ/ (B-S); /*qraːʔ/ (ZS), “mute, dumb”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Jingpho-Asakian
    • Jingpho
      • Jingpho: ma-a (“dumb”)
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
      • Burmese: အ (a., “dumb, mute”)
    • Proto-Loloish: *ʔa²/³ (“dumb”) (Bradley, 1979)
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