Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/m-bruŋ ~ m-bruk

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan

Etymology

  • Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *m-bruŋ ~ m-bruk (Matisoff, STEDT)

Chinese 龍／龙 (*mə-roŋ (B-S); *b·roŋ (ZS), “dragon”) may belong here too.

Noun

*m-bruŋ ~ m-bruk

  1. thunder
  2. dragon

Descendants

  • Old Chinese: (*靐 (*brɯŋs (ZS)))
    • Middle Chinese: 靐 (bɨŋH, “sound of thunder”)
      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: 靐 (bìng) /piŋ⁵¹/
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan: འབྲུག ('brug, “thunder; dragon”)
        • Dzongkha: འབྲུག ('brug, “dragon”)
  • Kiranti
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