Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/g-tam ~ g-dam

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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

Etymology

  • Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *g-tam ⪤ *g-dam (Matisoff, STEDT)

Verb

*g-tam ~ g-dam

  1. to talk, to speak

Descendants

  • Old Chinese:  / (*l'aːm (ZS), to talk, to discuss);  / (*l'ɯːm, *l'ɯːmʔ (ZS), to talk, to discuss)
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Japanese:  (だん, ​dan)
Korean:  (, dam)
Vietnamese: đàm ()

      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing:  / (tán),  / (tán) (tán, /tʰan³⁵/)
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Written Tibetan: གཏམ་པ (gtam pa, to talk about, to discuss, to explain), གཏོམ་པ (gtom pa, to talk, to speak), འདོམས་པ ('doms pa, to teach, to advise, to counsel)