Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/praj

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

Noun

*praj

  1. slander

Reconstruction notes

Hill repeatedly makes reference to an alleged word ཕྲ་མོ (phra mo), which usually actually means "small". It's ཕྲ་མ (phra ma) that means "slander".

Descendants

  • Chinese: 詖 / 诐 (MC *pje) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: ཕྲ་མ (phra ma)

Further reading

  • Hill, Nathan W. (2019) The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 37
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.