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

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
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

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]
  • Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *m-bruŋ ~ m-bruk (Matisoff, STEDT)

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

Noun

[edit]

*m-bruŋ ~ m-bruk

  1. thunder
  2. dragon

Descendants

[edit]
  • Old Chinese: (* (*brɯŋs (ZS)))
    • Middle Chinese: (bɨŋH, sound of thunder)
      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: (bìng) /piŋ⁵¹/
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan: འབྲུག ('brug, thunder; dragon)
        • Dzongkha: འབྲུག ('brug, dragon)
  • Kiranti