Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/r-meŋ

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: *mying  (Coblin, 1986); *meŋ (Hill, 2019)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *r-miŋ (Matisoff, STEDT; Chou, 1972; Weidert, 1987; Benedict, 1972); *r/s-miŋ (Matisoff, 2003)

Noun

*r-meŋ

  1. name

Verb

*r-meŋ

  1. to name
  2. to order, to command

Descendants

  • Old Chinese: 名 (*C.meŋ (B-S), *meŋ (ZS)), 命 (*m-riŋ-s (B-S), *mreŋs (ZS))
    • Middle Chinese: 名 (miᴇŋ), 命 (mɣiæŋH)
      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: 名 (míng) ("name") (míng, /miŋ³⁵/), 命 (mìng) ("to name, to order, to command") (mìng, /miŋ⁵¹/)
  • Proto-Bodish: *miŋ (see there for further descendants)
  • Kuki-Chin:
    /*miŋ/ ~ /*ʰmiŋ/, /*min/ ~ /*ʰmin/ (VanBik, 2009)
    • Central Chin
      • Mizo: hming (/ʰmiŋ/, “name”)
  • rGyalrongic
    • West rGyalrongic
      • Horpa
        • Geshiza: lmə
        • Stau: rmə
        • Nyagrong Minyag: ɦmə
        • Tangut: 𗦻 (*mji̱j², “name, title”), 𗥠 (*mji̱j², “name”)
      • Khroskyabs: rmê
    • East rGyalrongic
      • Japhug: tɤ-rmi
      • Situ: tə-rmiê
  • Naic
  • Lolo-Burmese: *ʔ-miŋ¹/³ (“name”) (Matisoff, 2003)
  • Boro-Garo
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