Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/r-durl

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

Reconstruction

  • Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rdjiul (Coblin, 1986); *rdurl (Hill, 2019)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *r-dul ⪤ *r-tul (Matisoff, STEDT)

Noun

*r-durl[1]

  1. dust

Descendants

  • Old Chinese: 塵 / 尘 (chén) /*drən/ (B-S); /*rdɯn/ (ZS) ("dust, dirt")
    • Middle Chinese: 塵 / 尘 (chén) /ɖɣiɪn/
      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: 塵 / 尘 (chén) (chén, /ʈ͡ʂʰən³⁵/)
      • Cantonese: 塵 / 尘 (chén) (can, /t͡sʰɐn²¹/)
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Tibetan: རྡུལ (rdul, “dust, particle”)

References

  1. ^ Hill, Nathan W. (2019) The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 196
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