Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/b-jəw-n ~ bwəj

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Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/b-jəw-n ~ bwəj

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: *yəw+śɑ ("animal (prefix) + rat") (Chou, 1972)
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *b-yəw-n ("rat / rabbit / hare"), *bwəy ("bamboo rat") (Matisoff, STEDT); *b-yuw, *b-yəw (Benedict, 1972; Chou, 1972)

The *-n here is said to function as a collective plural suffix (STC).

Noun

*b-jəw-n ~ bwəj

Rhizomys pruinosus, the hoary bamboo rat.

Lepus oiostolus, the woolly hare.

1. rat, bamboo rat
2. rabbit, hare

Descendants

• Chepangic:
  • Chepang: युः (yuʔ, “mouse, rat”)
• Old Chinese: 鼬 (*lu-s (?) (B-S, unlisted), *lɯwɢs (ZS), “weasel”); 㕙 (*sʰlun, *sʰluns (ZS) (dialectal), “hare”) (as in 東郭逡, 東郭㕙) (per Matisoff, Schuessler)
  • Middle Chinese: 鼬 (jɨuH), 㕙 (tsʰiuɪn, tsʰiuɪnH)
    • Modern Mandarin
      • Beijing: 鼬 (yòu, /i̯oʊ̯⁵¹/), 㕙 (qūn, /t͡ɕʰyn⁵⁵/; jùn, /t͡ɕyn⁵¹/)
• Kamarupan
  • Proto-Kuki-Chin: *yuu
    • Central Chin
      • Mizo: sa-zu (“rat”) (first element from *sja-n), bui (“bamboo rat”)
    • Khomic
      • Khumi Chin: bäjö (“rat”), jung (“rabbit”)
• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Bodic
      • Tibetan
        • Written Tibetan: བྱི་བ (byi ba, “mouse, rat”), བྱིའུ (byi'u, “shrew mouse, baby bird, alpine hare”), ཡོས (yos, “hare (in year name)”)
          • Dzongkha: བྱི་ཙི (“rat, mouse”) (bj˚itsi)
• Tangut-Qiang
  • rGyalrongic
    • Situ: pəɟu (“mouse, rat”)
• Jingpho-Asakian
  • Jingpho
    • Jingpho [Kachin]: yu (“rat”)
• Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
      • Burmese: ယုန် (yun, “rabbit, hare”), ပွေး (pwe:, “mole, bamboo rat”)
    • Loloish

      /*pi²/ ("bamboo rat") (Bradley, 1979)

      • Central Loloish
        • Lisu (Southern): ꓑꓺ ꓦꓯꓹ (pa h̃æ̌, “bamboo rat”)
• Proto-Karen: *jowᴮ (“mouse, rat”) (Luangthongkum, 2013)
  • S'gaw Karen: ယုၢ် (yu̱, “mouse; rat”)
  • Western Pwo: ယူ (“rat”)

See also

• *rwak (“rat”)