Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/m-bruŋ ~ m-bruk

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-bruŋ ~ m-bruk (Matisoff, STEDT)

Chinese 龍／龙 (*mə-roŋ (B-S); *b·roŋ (ZS), “dragon”) may belong here too.

Noun

*m-bruŋ ~ m-bruk

1. thunder
2. dragon

Descendants

• Old Chinese: (*靐 (*brɯŋs (ZS)))
  • Middle Chinese: 靐 (bɨŋH, “sound of thunder”)
    • Modern Mandarin
      • Beijing: 靐 (bìng) /piŋ⁵¹/
• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Bodic
      • Tibetan: འབྲུག ('brug, “thunder; dragon”)
      • Dzongkha: འབྲུག ('brug, “dragon”)
• Kiranti
  • Khaling: प्रेङ्मे (prengme, “thunder, dragon”)