Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/gwə

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:
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *gwa ~ *kwa (Benedict, 1972)

The root was set up in Benedict (1972) via a comparison between Tibetan, Lisu and Nungish (among others), which was expanded with further Lolo-Burmese comparisons in Matisoff (2003).

For rGyalrongic and Qiangic comparisons, see Zhang, Jacques & Lai (2019) and Sims (2025).

Verb

*gwə

  1. to wear (clothing)

Descendants

  • Chinese: 裘 (OC *[ɡ]ʷə (B-S), “fur coat”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: བགོ (bgo, “to wear”), གོས (gos, “clothes”)
  • rGyalrongic
    • West rGyalrongic
      • Horpa
        • Tangut: 𗔛 (*gjwi², “to wear”)
    • East rGyalrongic
      • Japhug: ŋga (“to wear”)
  • Qiangic
    • Rma
      • Northern Qiang: ggue, ⇒ ggues
  • Proto-Lolo-Burmese: *gwa²
    • Loloish
      • Lisoish
        • Lisu: ꓖꓪꓽ (gwɑ̀)
  • Nungish
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