Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/naŋ

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: *g/s-naŋ (STEDT)

Schuessler (2007; p. 439) derives the "let, yield" meaning as an exopassive to the "drive" meaning. Hill (2019) treats the two meanings separately.

Verb

*naŋ

  1. to drive off
  2. to allow, let, yield
  3. to grant, bestow

Descendants

  • Chinese: (see there for further descendants)
    • 攘 (OC *naŋ (B-S), “to expel, seize”)
    • 讓 / 让 (OC *naŋ-s (B-S), “to allow, let”)
  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: གནང (gnang, “to give, grant (honorific)”)
  • Proto-Tamangic: *ᴬnaŋ
  • Lolo-Burmese
  • Lepcha: ᰍᰩᰵ (nóng, “to go; to offer”)
  • Chepangic
    • Chepang: नाङ्‌हसा, न्‍हाङ्‌हसा (“to show as loan collateral”)
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