Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/mV-dzə

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

Reconstruction

• Proto-Sino-Tibetan:
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman:
    • *m-dza (Benedict, 1972)
    • *m-dza-k (STEDT)

Schuessler (2007:633) tries to place this in the same word family as *tsəʔ (“child”).

Verb

*mV-dzə

1. to love

Descendants

• Chinese: (see there for further descendants)
  • 字 (OC *mə-dzə(ʔ)-s (B-S), “to love”)
  • 慈 (OC *[N-ts]ə (B-S), “kind”)
• Bodish
  • Tibetic
    • Tibetan: མཛའ (mdza'), མཛའ་བ (mdza' ba)
• rGyalrongic
  • West rGyalrongic
    • Horpa
      • Tangut: 𘟠 (*dzu¹)
• Naic
  • Namuyi: dzhà
• Lolo-Burmese
  • Burmish
    • Burmese: စာ (ca, “to sympathize”)
• Jingpho-Asakian
  • Jingpho: nja (/⁠ndʑáʔ⁠/, “to show love, affection”)