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Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/ŋəw

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: *nguɣw (Coblin, 1986)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *ŋəw (Matisoff, STEDT), *ŋuw (Benedict, 1972; LaPolla, 1987; Michailovsky, 1991), *nguw (*A) (Coblin, 1986)

Verb

*ŋəw

  1. to cry, weep

Descendants
  • Old Chinese: 嗸 (áo), 嗷 (/*ŋaːw/ (ZS), “sound of wailing”)
    • Middle Chinese: 嗸 (áo), 嗷 (áo) /ŋɑu/
      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: 嗸 (áo), 嗷 (áo), /ˀɑʊ̯³⁵/
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Written Tibetan: ངུ་བ (ngu ba, “to cry, weep”)
    • Kiranti: *ŋok- ~ *ŋak- (“cry”) (Michailovsky, 1991)
  • Tangut-Qiang
    • Northern Tangut
      • Tangut: 𗥸 (*ŋwu², “to cry, sob”)
  • Lolo-Burmese: *ŋəw¹ (“weep”) (Matisoff, 2003)
    • Burmish
      • Burmic
        • Burmese: ငို (ngui, “to weep, cry, shed tears”)
      • Maruic
        • Pela: ŋau⁵⁵ (“to cry”), ŋau⁵⁵ pji⁵¹ (“tear”)
    • Proto-Loloish: *ŋo¹ (“cry”) (Bradley, 1979)
      • Northern Loloish
        • Yi (Liangshan): ꉩ (ngo, “to cry”)
      • Central Loloish
        • Lisu (Southern): ꓥꓴꓻ (ŋu, “to cry”)
  • Naic:
    • Naish:
      • Naxi: ngvq (“to cry, to weep”)
  • Nungish:
    • Rawang: ngø (“to cry, to weep”)
    • Trung/Drung/Dulong: ngeu (“to cry”)

See also
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