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Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s/p-wa

This Proto-Sino-Tibetan entry contains reconstructed words 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: *s-wa ⪤ *p-wa (Matisoff, STEDT); *s-wa (Weidert, 1987; Benedict, 1972; Michailovsky, 1991)

There appears to be no Chinese reflex. Chinese 牙 is from *d-ŋa (“tusk, tooth”), and 齒 is etymologically unclear. There is yet another root *m-dzjwaj (“tooth, tusk”).

Noun

*s/p-wa

  1. tooth

Descendants
  • Jingpho-Luish:
    • Jingpho: wa (“tooth”)
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Written Tibetan: སོ (so, “tooth”)
  • Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
    • Lolo-Burmese
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