Reconstruction:Proto-Kho-Bwa/a-breŋ

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Proto-Kho-Bwa

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mriŋ
    Proto-Kho-Bwa *a-breŋ

    Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mriŋ (“sound; noise; animal cry”).[1] Cognate with Lepcha (/⁠ʔábryáng⁠/), Drung (/⁠ɑŋ⁵⁵bɹiŋ⁵³⁠/), (/⁠ɑŋ³¹bɹɯŋ⁵³⁠/, “name”), Chinese 鳴／鸣 (míng, “to cry, call”), Burmese မြည် (mrany, “to make a sound”), Japhug mbri (“to be noisy”).

    Per Bodt, not to be derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-miŋ (“name”). STEDT reconstructs Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-braŋ for some of the cognates mentioned above.

    Noun

    *a-breŋ[2]

    1. name

    Descendants

    References

    1. ^ Jacques, Guillaume (2021 April 24) “Two etymons for “name” in Sino-Tibetan?”, in Panchronica‎
    2. ^ Bodt, Timotheus A. (2024) Proto-Western Kho-Bwa: Reconstructing a community’s past through language (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series; 64)‎, Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 429
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