Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/pʷak

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: *prwag (Coblin, 1986)
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *pʷak (Matisoff, STEDT); *pwak (LaPolla, 1987; Benedict, 1972; Chou, 1972; Coblin, 1986) *pak ~ pwak (Weidert, 1987)

Noun

*pʷak

1. pig

Descendants

• Old Chinese: 豝 (bā) /*pˤra/ (B-S); /*praː/ (ZS) ("sow, female pig")
  • Middle Chinese: 豝 (bā) /pɣa/
    • Modern Mandarin
      • Beijing: 豝 (bā) (bā, /pa⁵⁵/)
• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Bodish
      • Tibetan
        • Written Tibetan: ཕག (phag, “pig, swine”)
      • East Bodish
        • Kurtöp: ཕག (phag)
• Sal
  • Bodo-Garo
    • Atong (India): wak
    • Bodo (India): अमा (oma)
    • Garo: wak
    • Kokborok: wak
    • Rabha: বাক (bak)
    • Tiwa: oa
• Tangut-Qiang
  • rGyalrongic
    • Situ: pak
    • Tshobdun: pa
    • Zbu: pâx
• Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
      • Burmese: ဝက် (wak, “pig, swine”)
    • Loloish
      • Northern Loloish
        • Yi (Liangshan): ꃮ (vot, “pig”), ꃢ (vit, “pig (literary)”)
• Proto-Kuki-Chin: *wok
  • Northern
    • Zou: vok

References

• Benedict, Paul K. (1972) Sino-Tibetan: A Conspectus‎^[1], London: Cambridge University Press, page 23