Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/k/r/s-wa
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rɣwjaɣ (Coblin, 1986)
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *k/r/s-wa, *rwa-s (Matisoff, STEDT); *r-wa (Benedict, 1972; Weidert, 1987)
The Chinese word family 隕 / 殞 / 霣/陨 / 殒 / 𫕥 (“to fall, to die, to rain”) is said to represent a rare ST parallel stem *(r)we (Schuessler, 2007). Compare also 雲/云 (yún) (/*ɢʷən/, "cloud").
Compare Proto-Tai *kraːᴮ (“gust (of rain)”) (Thai ห่า (hàa), Lao ຮ່າ (hā)).
Noun
[edit]*s-wa
Descendants
[edit]- Old Chinese: 雨 (*C.ɢʷaʔ (B-S), *ɢʷaʔ (ZS), “rain”); 雨 (*ɢʷaʔ-s (B-S), *ɢʷas (ZS), “to rain”); 雩 (*ɢʷa (B-S), *ɢʷla (ZS), “sacrifice with prayer and dance for rain”)
- Himalayish
- Sal
- Bodo-Koch
- Bodo-Garo
- Garo: waa
- Bodo-Garo
- Bodo-Koch
- Lolo-Burmese-Naxi