< Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/m-dzjwaj
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Etymology
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *m-dzyway (Matisoff, STEDT); *m-jway (Matisoff, 1985)
Chinese 齒, listed by Matisoff (STEDT) as a reflex, is probably not related. Other roots for "tooth": *s-wa ~ p-wa, *d-ŋa.
Noun
*m-dzjwaj
- tooth, tusk
Descendants
- Himalayish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Bodic
- Tibetan
- Written Tibetan: མཆེ་བ (mche ba, “canine tooth, fang, tusk”)
- Tibetan
- Bodic
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Tangut-Qiang
- rGyalrongic
- Situ: (ta)ndzwi (“tusk”)
- rGyalrongic
- Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
- Lolo-Burmese
- Burmish
- Written Burmese: စွယ် (cwai, “fang, tooth, tusk”)
- Loloish
- Northern Loloish
- Yi (Liangshan): ꎐ (rry, “tooth”) (> ꎐꂷ (rry ma, “tooth”))
- Northern Loloish
- Burmish
- Lolo-Burmese