Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/təwk

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:
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *duk (Matisoff, 2003; STEDT)

In everywhere except Chinese, this verb (root) usually surfaces with a historically voiced initial stop (possibly caused by the anticausative *N-?).

Verb

*təwk

  1. to burn

Descendants

  • Chinese: 燭 / 烛 (OC *tok (B-S)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: དུགས (dugs), དུགས་པ (dugs pa)
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
    • Loloish
      • Lahu: tuˉ
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