tɤŋe
Japhug
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Tshobdun tɐ́ŋɐ (“sun”).[1] Sometimes thought to be related to Tibetan ཉི་མ (nyi ma, “sun; day”), Burmese နေ (ne, “sun”) (hence from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nəj (“sun, day”)),[2] but Guillaume Jacques disputes this and instead proposes that it is related to qarŋe (“to be yellow”).[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tɤŋe
- (Kamnyu) sun
- Synonym: ʁmbɣi
- 2019, Guillaume Jacques, quoting Chenzhen, “Illustrations of the IPA: Japhug”, in Journal of the International Phonetic Association, volume 49, number 3, , page 447:
- kɯɕɯŋgɯ tɕe, iɕqʰa, akɯcʰoʁle cʰondɤre tɤŋe ni kɯ, nɤkinɯ, ɲɤ-sɤfɕɤra-ndʑɯ ɲɯ-ŋu
- Long ago, the north wind and the sun were arguing.
References
[edit]- ^ Guillaume Jacques (2020 February 16) “Problèmes de comparatisme rgyalronguique (2): les correspondances vocaliques”, in Panchronica[1]
- ^ James A. Matisoff, editor (2015), The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus
- ^ Jacques, Guillaume (2004) Phonologie et morphologie du Japhug (rGyalrong)[2] (in French), Paris: Université Paris-Diderot, page 304