Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/mV-taŋ

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: *mljang (Schuessler, 2007); *mC-taŋ (Hill, 2019); *mə-taŋ (Lai, 2023)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *mraŋ (Matisoff, STEDT; Weidert, 1987); *mraŋ, *mrak (Benedict, 1972); *mrang (*A) (Coblin, 1986); *mrɑŋ (Chou, 1972)

The -r- in Burmese is due to some sort of lenition of underlying *t.

Verb

*mV-taŋ

  1. to see, to look

Descendants

  • Proto-Bodish: *(m)tʰoŋ
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: མཐོང (mthong)
    • Dakpa-Dzala
      • Dakpa: ཐོང (thong)
      • Dzala: ཏོང (tong)
    • East Bodish
      • Bumthangkha: ཐུང (thung)
      • Khengkha: ཐུང (thung)
  • rGyalrongic:
    • West rGyalrongic:
      • Khroskyabs: vdê (“to see”), ⇒ stô (“to show”)
    • rGyalrong:
      • Japhug: mto
      • Situ: kamətó (Brag-dbar)
  • Naic
    • Proto-Naish: *Ndaɣ
      • Naxi: ddoq (/⁠dø²¹⁠/)
      • Narua: ddoq (/⁠do˩˥⁠/)
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
      • Achang: nyvng
      • Burmese: မြင် (mrang, “to see; to perceive, to understand; to foresee”)
      • Lashi: myang
    • Loloish
      • Northern Loloish
        • Yi (Liangshan): ꂿ (mo, “to see, to perceive”)

Further reading

  • Lai, Yunfan (2023) “Lenition alternation in West Gyalrongic and its implications for Southeast Asian panchronic phonology”, in Diachronica, volume 40, number 3, →ISSN, pages 341–383

See also

  • *mjək (“eye”)
  • *ken (“to see; to know”)
  • *hjen (“to look, to see; to hear, to listen”)
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