Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/g-jak ~ g-jaŋ

This Proto-Sino-Tibetan entry contains reconstructed terms 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: ?
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *g-ya(k/ŋ) (Matisoff, STEDT)

Noun

Domestic yak (Bos grunniens)

*g-jak ~ g-jaŋ

1. sheep, yak

Descendants

• Old Chinese: 羊 (yáng) /*ɢaŋ/ (B-S), /*laŋ/ (ZS) ("sheep, goat")

  (in the oracle bone script)

  • Middle Chinese: 羊 (yáng) /jɨɐŋ/

**:

→ Japanese: 羊 (よう, ​yō)
Korean: 양 (羊, yang)
Vietnamese: dương (羊)

• • • Modern Mandarin
      • Beijing: 羊 (yáng), /iɑŋ³⁵/)
• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Bodic
      • Tibetan
        • Written Tibetan: གཡག (g.yag, “yak”) (see there for further descendants)
      • Lepcha: ᰚᰩᰭ (yók)
• Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
  • Naxi: y²¹ (“sheep”)
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
      • Pela: jɔ̃⁵⁵ (“goat”)
    • Proto-Loloish: *ʒo¹ (“sheep”) (Bradley, 1979)
• Bai
  • Bai: yon (“sheep”)