Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/mə-tu(ŋ~k)

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: *m-duŋ/k ⪤ *m-tuŋ/k (Matisoff, STEDT)

Compare Proto-Malayic *duduk (whence Malay duduk).

Verb

*mə-tu(ŋ~k)

  1. to sit

Descendants

  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Tibetan: འདུག་པ ('dug pa, “to be, stay, sit”)
  • Jingpho-Asakian
    • Jingpho
      • Jingpho: dung (“sit”)
  • Lolo-Burmese
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