Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/m-ljak ~ mrak ~ mruk

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: *m-lyak ⪤ *mrak ⪤ *mruk (Matisoff, STEDT); *m-lyak (Benedict, 1972)

Noun

*m-ljak ~ mrak ~ mruk

1. grass, weeds

Descendants

• Old Chinese: 莽 (mǎng), 茻 (mǎng) /*maːŋʔ, moːʔ, maːʔ/ (ZS) ("grass, weeds; bushy")
  • Middle Chinese: 莽 (mǎng), 茻 (mɑŋX, məuX, muoX)
    • Modern Mandarin
      • Beijing: 莽 (mǎng), 茻 (mǎng) (mǎng, /mɑŋ²¹⁴/)
• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Bodic
      • Tibetan
        • Written Tibetan: འཇག་མ ('jag ma, “coarse and thick grass; blade (of grass); stalk (of corn)”) (< *ɴ-ljak)
  • Kham-Magar-Chepang
    • Chepang: /maŋʔ/ ("grass (sp.)")
• Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
  • Lolo-Burmese

    /*mruk ~ mrak/ ("weeds, grass") (Matisoff, 1972)

    • Burmish
      • Burmese: မြက် (mrak, “grass”)
    • Loloish

      Proto-Loloish: *(C)-mrukᴸ (“grass”) (Bradley, 1979)

      • Central Loloish
        • Lisu: ꓟꓳꓼ (mò̱, “weeds; to weed”)

See also

• *r-tswa-n (“grass”)
• *s-jəj (“grass”)