< Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/m-hla
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Etymology
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *m-hla (Matisoff, STEDT); *(m-)hla (Benedict, 1972; LaPolla, 1987)
Noun
*m-hla
- soul
- god
- demon
- beautiful
Descendants
- Kamarupan
- Kuki-Chin
- /*khlaa/ (VanBik, 2009)
- Central Chin
- Lushai [Mizo]: thla (“spirit, soul; god; ghost; shadow, image”)
- Kuki-Chin
- Himalayish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Bodic
- Tibetan
- Written Tibetan: ལྷ (lha, “god, deity”)
- Modern Tibetan (Lhasa): /ɬa˥˧/
- Written Tibetan: ལྷ (lha, “god, deity”)
- Tibetan
- Tamangic
- *ᴬʰla, ᴬʰlu, ᴬHla, ᴬHlaː (Mazaudon, 1994)
- Tamang (Sahu): १ला (¹la), १लु (¹lu, “god”)
- Bodic
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Jingpho-Nung-Asakian
- Jingpho
- Jingpho [Kachin]: minla (“ghost”), numla (“spirit, image, soul”), sumla (“picture”)
- Jingpho
- Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
- Lolo-Burmese
- Burmish
- Burmese: လှ (hla., “pretty, beautiful”)
- Loloish
- /*ʔ-la¹/ ("soul") (Bradley, 1979)
- Northern Loloish
- Yi (Liangshan): ꆠ (hla, “soul, spirit”) (> ꒌꆠ (yyr hla, “ghost, soul, spirit”))
- Central Loloish
- Lisu (Northern): ꓦꓻ (h̃a, “soul”) (> ꓞꓳꓻ ꓦꓻ (tsʰo h̃a, “soul (of a dead person)”))
- Burmish
- Lolo-Burmese
See also
- Proto-Semitic: *ʾil- (“god, deity”) (> Allah)
- Old Chinese: 帝 /*tˁek-s/ ("god"), also Proto-Indo-European: *deywós (“god”) (Zhou Jixu, 2003)