Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/njewk

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

See Schuessler (2007; p. 448) and Hill (2019; p. 21) for the comparisons behind this reconstruction. This etymon does not exist in the STEDT.

See also Proto-Tani *mjak (“soft”) (STEDT), which bears a passing resemblance to this etymon.

Adjective

*njewk

  1. soft
  2. weak

Descendants

  • Chinese: 弱 (OC *newk, “weak”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: ཉོག་ཉོང (nyog nyong)
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
      • Burmese: ညက် (nyak, “to be smooth”)
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