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Proto-Western Kho-Bwa
Etymology
Proto-Western Kho-Bwa *nam- Proto-Western Kho-Bwa *nam-bla
From *nam- (sky prefix) + Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/ɡ-la (“moon, month”). Cognate with Bulu Puroik haNbɔ, Dikhyang Bugun habʲe. The second element is cognate with Tibetan ཟླ (zla).
Noun 1
*nam-bla[1]
- moon
- month
Descendants
Noun 2
*nam-bla[2]
- frost
Descendants
References
- ^ 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 167
- ^ 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 466