Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/srəm

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

Not in STEDT. The comparisons under this etymon are chiefly due to Jacques, see Jacques (2015b) and Jacques (2017).

Jacques attributes the g in Tibetan to the *tə- inalienably possessive prefix that can be seen in front of the Japhug word.[1]

Noun

*srəm

  1. root

Descendants

  • Chinese: 參 / 参 (MC *srim, “rhizomous medicinal plant”), ⇒ 人參 / 人参 (rénshēn, “ginseng”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: གཤམ་ (gsham, “bottom, lower part, under”)
  • rGyalrongic:
    • rGyalrong:
      • Japhug: tɤ-zrɤm (“root”)
      • Situ: wa-sram, ta-sram
      • Tshobdun: ta-zram
  • Kuki-Chin
  • Kiranti

References

  1. ^ Jacques, Guillaume (2019) “Fossil Nominalization Prefixes in Tibetan and Chinese”, in Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, volume 12, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 13–28
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