Reconstruction:Proto-Western Kho-Bwa/kʰa-

This Proto-Western Kho-Bwa 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-Western Kho-Bwa

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mV-qow?

Proto-Western Kho-Bwa *kʰa-

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mV-qow. Cognate with Tibetan མགོ (mgo).

Prefix

*kʰa-^[1]

head

Derived terms

*kʰa-bu (“eye”)
*kʰa-kʰaŋ (“boil”, noun)
*kʰa-nʷaŋ (“Miji people”)
*kʰa-rok (“head”)
*kʰa-tsʰʷam (“mud”)
*kʰa-tʰoŋ (“cap, hat”)
*kʰa-tʰuŋ (“ear”)
*kʰa-zʲaŋ (“hair of the head”)

References

^ Bodt, Timotheus A. (2024) Proto-Western Kho-Bwa: Reconstructing a community’s past through language (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series; 64)‎^[1], Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 421