Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s-riŋ

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: *ring (Coblin, 1986)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *s-r(i/u)ŋ (STEDT)

Forms with u appear in Tamangic. STEDT projects the Tamangic variants all the way back to "Proto-Tibeto-Burman" as an allofam variant.

The Chinese comparandum appears in Luce (1981)[1] and is also adopted by Hill (2019).[2]

Adjective

*s-riŋ

  1. long

Descendants

  • Chinese: 莘 (OC *sri[n] (B-S)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Bodish: *riŋ (see there for further descendants)
  • rGyalrongic
    • West rGyalrongic
      • Horpa
        • Tangut: 𗧥 (*zjir²)
    • East rGyalrongic
      • Japhug: zri
  • Proto-Ersuic: *ʂɑ
  • Naic
  • Lolo-Burmese

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981) “Long (in space or time)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 64
  2. ^ Hill, Nathan W. (2019) The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 194
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