< Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/taŋ
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Etymology
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *taŋ (Matisoff, STEDT; Mortensen, 2012; LaPolla, 1987)
Noun
*taŋ
- pine
- fir
Descendants
- Old Chinese: 蒸 /*təŋ/ (B-S), /*kljɯŋ/ (ZS) ("brushwood")
- Middle Chinese: 蒸 tsying (/t͡ɕɨŋ/) ("brushwood")
- Modern Mandarin
- Beijing: 蒸 (zhēng, /ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵⁵/, “to steam”)
- Yue
- Cantonese: 蒸 (/t͡sɪŋ⁵⁵/, “to steam”)
- Modern Mandarin
- Min Nan
- Xiamen: 蒸 (/t͡ɕiɪŋ⁴⁴/, “to steam”)
- Middle Chinese: 蒸 tsying (/t͡ɕɨŋ/) ("brushwood")
- Himalayish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Bodic
- Tibetan
- Written Tibetan: ཐང་ཤིང (thang shing, “pine, fir”); ཐང་ཆུ (thang chu, “resin, gum”)
- Tibetan
- Bodic
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
- Lolo-Burmese:
- *taŋ² (Matisoff, 2003)
- Burmese: ထင်း (htang:, “firewood, stain”)
- Lolo-Burmese:
See also
- *siŋ ~ sik (“tree”)