Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/mV-qow

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/s-gaw (STEDT)

The reconstruction of -ow instead of -aw is based on Tangkhulic. *aw is also not reconstructible if Chinese 后 (hòu) is to be connected here, since Old Chinese preserved inherited *aw.

The uvular must be reconstructed based on West rGyalrongic. Japhug had some sort of de-uvularization occur in its reflex. For more information, see Gong (2020).[1]

Noun

*mV-qow

  1. head
    Synonym: *tV-pu

Descendants

  • Chinese: 后 (OC *ɢˤ(r)oʔ (B-S), “ruler”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Bodish: *(m)go
  • rGyalrongic
    • West rGyalrongic
      • Horpa
        • Geshiza: ɣuə
        • Stau: ʁə
        • Tangut: 𗥦 (*ɣu¹)
      • Khroskyabs: ʁû
    • East rGyalrongic
      • Japhug: tɯ-ku
      • Situ: ta-kō (Cogtse), ta-wô (Brag-bar)
      • Zbu: tə-kúʔ
  • Naic
    • Proto-Naish: *Cko
      • ⇒ Naxi: gu'liu (/⁠ku³³ly³³⁠/)
      • ⇒ Narua: wokhua (/⁠ʁo˧qʰwɤ˩⁠/)
      • ⇒ Laze: [Term?] (/⁠u˧tu˥⁠/)
  • Nungish
    • Rawang: vgo
  • Bodo-Garo
    • ⇒ Bodo (India): खावलाइ (kaolai, “cheek”)
    • ⇒ Dimasa: kholai (“cheek”)
    • Garo: sko (with irregular s-)
  • Proto-Tangkhulic: *kow
    • Tangkhul Naga: kui
  • Manipuri: ꯃꯀꯣꯛ (makok) (with unexplained -k)
  • Kho-Bwa
    • Proto-Western Kho-Bwa: *kʰa- (head part prefix) (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Gong, Xun (2020) “Uvulars and uvularization in Tangut phonology”, in Language and Linguistics‎[1], volume 21, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 175–212
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