Reconstruction:Proto-Western Kho-Bwa/sa-rgʲat

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This Proto-Western Kho-Bwa 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-Western Kho-Bwa

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Proto-Western Kho-Bwa numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: *sa-rgʲat

Etymology

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Borrowed from Tibetic (compare Tibetan བརྒྱད (brgyad, eight)), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-r-gjat ~ b-g-rjat. The borrowing underwent simplification of the initial cluster.

Numeral

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*sa-rgʲat[1][2]

  1. (cardinal number) eight

Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Bodt, Timotheus A. (2024) Proto-Western Kho-Bwa: Reconstructing a community’s past through language (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series; 64)‎[1], Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 586
  2. ^ Bodt, Timotheus A. (2019) “The Duhumbi perspective on Proto-Western Kho-Bwa rhymes”, in Die Sprache[2], volume 52, number 2, page 6 of 141–176