Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/la

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: *l(w)a-ŋ (STEDT)

See Sagart (2007) for the comparison between the Chinese and Karbi forms. In Chinese, this pronoun became the classical l-series of first-person pronouns.

Pronoun

*la

  1. this

Descendants

  • Chinese: (see there for further descendants)
    • 余 (OC *la (B-S))
    • 予 (OC *laʔ (B-S))
    • 台 (OC *lə (B-S))
  • Karbi: la (“this”)
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