Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/r-miŋ

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: *mying  (Coblin, 1986)
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *r-miŋ (Matisoff, STEDT; Chou, 1972; Weidert, 1987; Benedict, 1972); *r/s-miŋ (Matisoff, 2003)

Noun

*r-miŋ

1. name

Verb

*r-miŋ

1. to name
2. to order, to command

Descendants

• Old Chinese: 名 (*C.meŋ (B-S), *meŋ (ZS)), 命 (*m-riŋ-s (B-S), *mreŋs (ZS))
  • Middle Chinese: 名 (miᴇŋ), 命 (mɣiæŋH)
    • Modern Mandarin
      • Beijing: 名 (míng) ("name") (míng, /miŋ³⁵/), 命 (mìng) ("to name, to order, to command") (mìng, /miŋ⁵¹/)
• Kuki-Chin:

  /*miŋ/ ~ /*ʰmiŋ/, /*min/ ~ /*ʰmin/ (VanBik, 2009)

  • Central Chin
    • Mizo: hming (/ʰmiŋ/, “name”)
• Tangut-Qiang
  • Northern Tangut
    • Tangut: 𗦻 (*mji̱j², “name, title”), 𗥠 (*mji̱j², “name”)
• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Bodic
      • Tibetan
        • Written Tibetan: མིང (ming, “name”)
          • Dzongkha: མིང (ming, “name”)
      • East Bodish
        • Written Bumthangkha: མིང (ming, “name”)
• Sal
  • Bodo-Garo
    • Garo: minga, biming
• Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
  • Lolo-Burmese:

    *ʔ-miŋ¹/³ (“name”) (Matisoff, 2003)

    • Burmish
      • Written Burmese: အမည် (a.many, “name”), မှည့် (hmany., “to name”), မိန့် (min., “to order, to command”)