Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/guŋ

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: *kjəngw ~ *gjəngw (Coblin, 1986)
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *guŋ (Matisoff, STEDT; Benedict, 1972; Chou, 1972); *gung (LaPolla, 1987; Coblin, 1986)

Despite the phonetic resemblance between this root, Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(k/g)um (“body, back”) and Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(k/ʔ)uk (“back, crooked”), the three are probably unrelated.

Noun

*guŋ

1. body
2. back

Descendants

• Old Chinese: 躬 (gōng) /*k(r)uŋ/ (B-S), /*kuŋ/ (ZS) (“body”)
  • Middle Chinese: 躬 (gōng /⁠kɨuŋ⁠/, “body”)

**:

→ Japanese: 躬 (く, きゅう, ​ku, kyū)
Korean: 궁 (躬, gung)
Vietnamese: cung, còng (躬)

• • • Modern Mandarin
      • Beijing: 躬 (gōng, /kʊŋ⁵⁵/, “body”)
    • Wu
      • Shanghai: 躬 (/kʊŋ⁵³/, “body”)
    • Yue
      • Cantonese: 躬 (/kʊŋ⁵⁵/, “body”)
  • Min Nan
    • Xiamen: 躬 (/kiɔŋ⁴⁴/, “body”)
• Tangut-Qiang
  • Northern Tangut
    • Tangut: 𗧍 (*kow¹, “body”)
• Jingpho–Luish:
  • Jingpho: gong (“physical body”)
• Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
  • Lolo-Burmese:

    *guŋ¹ (“body, person”) (Matisoff, 2003)

    • Loloish
      • Yi: ꇭꀧ (gop bo, “body”), ꈯꄿ (ggur dda, “body”)
    • Burmish
      • Burmic
        • Burmese
          • Written Burmese: အကောင် (a.kaung)
      • Maruic
        • Pela: kauŋ⁵⁵ tɔ⁵¹ (“body”)
• Nungish:
  • Trung/Derung/Drung: gong (“back; body; health”)