Reconstruction:Proto-Bodish/wur

This Proto-Bodish 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-Bodish

Etymology

These Bodish words are compared by Schuessler (2024:110) to Chinese 耘 (yún).

Noun

*wur[1]

  1. weed (unwanted plant)

Verb

*wur

  1. to remove unwanted weeds

Descendants

  • Tibetic
    • ⇒ Dzongkha: གཡུར་མ (g.yur ma)
    • ⇒ Sherpa: ཡུར་མ (yur ma)
    • ⇒ Sikkimese: ཡུར་མ (yur ma)
    • Tibetan: ཡུར་མ (yur ma, noun), ཡུར་མ་ཡུར་བ (yur ma yur ba, verb)
  • East Bodish
    • Khengkha: ཝེར (wer), ཝེར་ཟ (werza)
    • Kurtöp: ཝེར (wer), ཝེར་ཟ (werza)

References

  1. ^ Bodt, Timotheus Adrianus (2023), “East Bodish revisited”, in Bulletin of Tibetology‎[1], volume 54, number 1, Gangtok: Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, →ISSN, page 143 of 49–212
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