< Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/m-bruŋ ~ m-bruk
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Etymology
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *m-bruŋ ~ m-bruk (Matisoff, STEDT)
Chinese 龍 (*mə-roŋ (B-S); *b·roŋ (ZS), “dragon”) may belong here too.
Noun
*m-bruŋ ~ m-bruk
- thunder
- dragon
Descendants
- Old Chinese: (*靐 (*brɯŋs (ZS)))
- Middle Chinese: 靐 (bɨŋH, “sound of thunder”)
- Modern Mandarin
- Beijing: 靐 (bìng) /piŋ⁵¹/
- Modern Mandarin
- Middle Chinese: 靐 (bɨŋH, “sound of thunder”)
- Himalayish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Bodic
- Tibetan: འབྲུག ('brug, “thunder; dragon”)
- Dzongkha: འབྲུག ('brug, “dragon”)
- Bodic
- Tibeto-Kanauri