Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/b-liŋ

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: *b-liŋ (Matisoff, STEDT; Benedict, 1972)

Noun

*b-liŋ

1. field
2. forest

Descendants

• Old Chinese: 田 /*lˤiŋ/ (B-S), /*lʼiːŋ/ (ZS) (“field, farmland; to cultivate, to farm; to hunt”)
  • Middle Chinese: 田 /den/

**:

→ Japanese: 田 (でん, ​den)
Korean: 전 (田, jeon)
Vietnamese: điền (田)

• • • Mandarin:
      • Beijing: 田 (tián) /tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
    • Cantonese:
      • Guangzhou-Hong Kong: 田 (tin⁴) /tʰiːn²¹/
• Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
  • Lolo-Burmese

    *b(y)etᴸ (Matisoff, 1972)

    • Burmish
      • Burmese: တလင်း (‌ta.lang:, “field, bare ground, threshing floor”)
• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Bodic
      • Tibetan
        • Written Tibetan: ཞིང (zhing, “field, realm, cultivation, region, country”), ལིངས (lings, “hunting, chase”)