Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/rkaŋ

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: (m)krang (Coblin, 1986)
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman:

This word family is split across two STEDT entries and two entries in Schuessler (2007; pp. 250-251 and 427); it is highly prolific across Sino-Tibetan. The initial sequence *rk- was quite unstable, with many descendants featuring metathesis of the cluster to *kr- and/or loss of one of the consonants.

The Burmese descendant meaning "mature" is placed here by Hill (2019).

The rGyalrongic words are placed here by Zhang, Jacques and Lai (2019; p. 84).

Verb

*rkaŋ

  1. to be hard, tough, strong

Descendants

  • Chinese: (see there for further descendants)
    • 剛 / 刚 (OC *kˤaŋ (B-S), “strong, hard”)
    • 梗 (OC *kˤraŋʔ (B-S), “stalk; stiff”)
    • 鋼 / 钢 (OC *C.kˤaŋ (B-S), “steel”)
    • 強 / 强 (OC *N-kaŋ (B-S), “strong”)
    • 勍 (MC gjaeng)
  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: མཁྲང (mkhrang, “to be hard, solid”), གངས (gangs, “snow”)
  • Lepcha: ᰀᰥᰴ (krang, “to be strong on one's legs, to be able to walk”)
  • rGyalrongic
    • East rGyalrongic
      • Japhug: rko
      • Situ: kə-rkô
  • Proto-Central Naga: *m-raŋ
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
      • Achang: [Term?] (/⁠a³¹ xʐaŋ⁵⁵⁠/)
      • Burmese: ရင့် (rang., “mature”)
  • Bodo-Garo
    • Bodo (India): गोख्रों (gwkrwŋ)
  • Proto-Northern Naga: *raŋ
    • Konyak-Chang
      • Konyak Naga: wan
  • Proto-Kuki-Chin: *khraŋ (“to grow”)
    • Central
      • Mizo: ṭhang (“to grow”), khang (“to congeal”)
  • Tangkhulic
    • Tangkhul Naga: khamakang
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