tɤjmɤɣ
Appearance
Japhug
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably cognate with Tibetan རྨོག (rmog, “helmet”), Chinese 帽 (OC *muːɡs, “hat”), with a frozen indefinite possessor prefix tɤ-; compare Breton tog-touseg (“mushroom”), literally “frog hat”.[1][2]
Alternatively, it may be from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/s-məw (“mushroom”); compare Nuosu ꂥ (hmu), Burmese မှို (hmui).[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tɤjmɤɣ
- (Kamnyu) mushroom
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Zhang, Shuya, Jacques, Guillaume, Lai, Yunfan (2019) “A study of cognates between Gyalrong languages and Old Chinese”, in Journal of Language Relationship, volume 17, number 1, , page 80
- ^ Guillaume Jacques (2021) A grammar of Japhug[1], Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 126
- ^ James A. Matisoff, editor (2015), “PTB *g/s-məw MUSHROOM / FUNGUS”, in The Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus