Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/mow

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: *mow (Matisoff, STEDT; Benedict, 1972; Chou, 1972)

Noun

*mow

  1. woman
  2. female relative

Descendants

  • Old Chinese: 母 (mǔ) /*məʔ/ (B-S), /*mɯʔ/ (ZS) ("mother, female")
    (in the oracle bone script)
    • Middle Chinese: 母 (mǔ) /məuX/

      → Japanese: 母 (も, ​mo)
      Korean: 모 (母, mo)
      Vietnamese: mẫu (母)

      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: 母 (mǔ, “mother”), /mu²¹⁴/
      • Cantonese: /mou̯¹³/
      • Hakka: /mu²⁴/
    • Min
      • Min Nan: /bu⁵³/
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan: བུ་མོ (bu mo, “young girl, daughter”); མོ (mo, “woman”)
  • rGyalrongic
    • West rGyalrongic
      • Tangut: 𗴺 (*mja¹, “mother”), 𗕪 (*mjịj¹, “woman, girl”)
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
    • Loloish
      • Mpi: /kho²mo⁴/ ("woman, wife")

See also

  • *nja-ŋ/k (“woman”)
  • *k/m-na (“mother, female”)
  • *n(j)u (“female”)
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