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

Descendants

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