Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/r-miŋ

This Proto-Sino-Tibetan entry contains reconstructed words 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: *mying (Coblin, 1986)
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *r-miŋ (Matisoff, STEDT; Chou, 1972; Weidert, 1987; Benedict, 1972); *r/s-miŋ (Matisoff, 2003)

Noun

*r-miŋ

name

Verb

*r-miŋ

to name
to order, to command

Descendants

Old Chinese: 名 (*C.meŋ (B-S), *meŋ (ZS)), 命 (*m-riŋ-s (B-S), *mreŋs (ZS))
- Middle Chinese: 名 (miᴇŋ), 命 (mɣiæŋH)
  - Modern Mandarin
    - Beijing: 名 ("name") (míng, /miŋ³⁵/), 命 ("to name, to order, to command") (mìng, /miŋ⁵¹/)
Kuki-Chin:
/*miŋ/ ~ /*ʰmiŋ/, /*min/ ~ /*ʰmin/ (VanBik, 2009)
- Central Chin
  - Mizo: hming (/ʰmiŋ/, “name”)
Tangut-Qiang
- Northern Tangut
  - Tangut: 𗦻 (mjij, /*mʲɪj³⁵/, “name, title”), 𗥠 (mjij, /*mʲɪj³⁵/, “name”)
Himalayish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
  - Bodic
    - Tibetan
      - Written Tibetan: མིང (ming, “name”)
Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
- Lolo-Burmese:
  *ʔ-miŋ¹/³ (“name”) (Matisoff, 2003)
  - Burmish
    - Written Burmese: အမည် (a.many, “name”), မှည့် (hmany., “to name”), အမိန့် (a.min., “order, command”)