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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.
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Etymology 1
Reconstruction
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *na-(n/t) (Matisoff, STEDT); *na (Benedict, 1972; Weidert, 1987; Michailovsky, 1991); *na (*A) (Coblin, 1986)
See more on Wikipedia: Nat (spirit).
Adjective
*na
- ill, sick
- pain
- to suffer
- evil spirit
Derived terms
Descendants
- Proto-Bodish: *na
- Tibetic
- Tibetan: ན (na, “to fall ill”), ⇒ ནན་ཏེ (nan te, “sick, ill”), སྣད (snad, “to wound, hurt”)
- Dakpa-Dzala
- East Bodish
- Khengkha: ན (na)
- Kurtöp: ནཱ (nâ, “to be sick”)
- Lolo-Burmese: *na¹ (“ill”) (Weidert, 1987)
- Burmish
- Achang: nos (“to be ill”)
- Burmese: နာ (na, “to be ill, to suffer pain”), နတ် (nat, “nat, spirit”)
- Proto-Loloish: *C-na¹ (“ill”) (Bradley, 1979)
- Northern Loloish
- Yi (Liangshan): ꆅ (na, “hurt, pain, sore; illness”)
- Central Loloish
- Lisu (Southern): ꓠꓻ (nɑ, “sore, sick, ill”)
- Kuki-Chin
- Central Chin
- Mizo: nâ, nat (“ill, sick; illness”)
- Northern Chin
- Kho-Bwa
- Proto-Puroik: *ńaŋ
- Proto-Western Kho-Bwa: *naq
See also
- *mV-nar (“to suffer”)
- *tsə (“hot, pain, suffer, sick, ill”)
Etymology 2
Reconstruction
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan:
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman:
- *na (Benedict, 1972)
- *g-na-s (Matisoff, 2003; STEDT)
Verb
*na
- to rest
- to stop (oneself at a location)
Descendants
- Bodish
- rGyalrongic
- West rGyalrongic
- East rGyalrongic
- Japhug: nɯna
- Tshobdun: nəne
- Proto-Lolo-Burmese: *na²
- Nungish