Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s-mrul

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

From *s- (animal prefix) + *b/m-rul ("snake". Might be related to the root *m-b-ruŋ/*m-b-ruk ("dragon").

  • Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *s-b/m-ruːl (Matisoff, STEDT); *b-ruːl (Benedict, 1972; Weidert, 1987)

Noun

*s-mrul

  1. snake

Descendants

  • Chinese: 虺, 虫 (OC /*r̥ujʔ/ (dial. *r̥- > x-) (B-S), /*ŋ̊lulʔ/ (ZS), “pit viper; snake-brood”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Bodish: *smrul
    • Tibetic
    • Dakpa-Dzala
      • Dakpa: མྲུའི (mru'i), སྨུ་རི (smuri /⁠mu35.ri55⁠/)
      • Dzala: མྲེ (mre)
  • Greater Magaric
  • rGyalrongic
    • West rGyalrongic
      • Tangut: 𗀋 (*phio², “snake”)
  • Lolo-Burmese: *m-r-wəy¹ (Matisoff, 2003)
  • Proto-Kuki-Chin: *ruul
    • Khomic
    • Northern
    • Central
      • Mizo: rûl

See also

  • *bəw (“insect, bug, vermin; snake”)
  • Chinese: 蛇 < 它 (OC /*Cə.laj/, "snake") – etymology uncertain. Likely arose as a taboo word, from the sense "to crawl, to wind". Confer Proto-Austronesian *Sulaʀ (“snake”).
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