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Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/zrjaŋ ~ rjaŋ

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: ?
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *zryaŋ ⪤ *ryaŋ (Matisoff, STEDT); *źraŋ, *ryaŋ (Benedict, 1972); *źrɑŋ (Chou, 1972)

Noun

*zrjaŋ ~ rjaŋ

  1. uncle, superior

Descendants
  • Old Chinese: 丈 (zhàng) /*draŋʔ/ (B-S), /*daŋʔ/ (ZS) ("old man")
    • Middle Chinese: 丈 (ɖɨɐŋX)
      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: 丈 (zhàng) (zhàng, /ʈʂɑŋ⁵¹/)
      • Cantonese
        • Guangzhou: 丈 (zhàng) /t͡sœːŋ²²/
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Written Tibetan: ཞང (zhang, “maternal uncle”) (> ཞང་ཞང (zhang zhang), ཞང་པོ (zhang po), ཨ་ཞང (a zhang, “maternal uncle”))
            • Ladakhi–Balti
  • Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
    • Lolo-Burmese
      • Burmish

See also
  • *maŋ (“big, elder, old”)
  • *gəw-n ~ kəw-n (“elder brother, senior male relative”)
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