Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/mV-dzə

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-dza (Benedict, 1972)
      • *m-dza-k (STEDT)

Schuessler (2007:633) tries to place this in the same word family as *tsəʔ (“child”).

Verb

*mV-dzə

  1. to love

Descendants

  • Chinese: (see there for further descendants)
    • 字 (OC *mə-dzə(ʔ)-s (B-S), “to love”)
    • 慈 (OC *[N-ts]ə (B-S), “kind”)
  • Bodish
  • rGyalrongic
    • West rGyalrongic
      • Horpa
        • Tangut: 𘟠 (*dzu¹)
  • Naic
    • Namuyi: dzhà
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
      • Burmese: စာ (ca, “to sympathize”)
  • Jingpho-Asakian
    • Jingpho: nja (/⁠ndʑáʔ⁠/, “to show love, affection”)
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