Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/qə-lə(ŋ~k)

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-la(ŋ/k) (STEDT)

Jacques holds the pre-initial to be the animal prefix *qə-.[1]

The word has a wide areal distribution, also appearing in Proto-Austroasiatic *klaːŋ and Proto-Hmong-Mien *qlaŋˣ.

Noun

*qə-lə(ŋ~k)

  1. bird of prey, eagle

Descendants

  • Chinese: 鷹 / 鹰 (OC /*[q](r)əŋ/ (B-S)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish:
  • rGyalrongic:
    • rGyalrong:
      • Japhug: qaliaʁ
      • Zbu: ʁɐliɐ̂χ
  • Lolo-Burmese:
  • Jinghpaw-Asakian:

References

  1. ^ Jacques, Guillaume (2014) “On Coblin's Law”, in Richard VanNess Simmons, editor, Studies in Chinese and Sino-Tibetan Linguistics: Dialect, Phonology, Transcription and Text, Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, pages 155-165
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