Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/pam

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: *bam ⪤ pam (Benedict, 1972); *(b/p)am (STEDT)

The comparison between the Chinese and Tibetan terms is found in Schuessler (2007:166).

The Kho-Bwa comparison to the Tibetan form is due to Bodt (2024).[1]

Verb

*pam

  1. to go down
    1. to sit
    2. to lose, be defeated

Descendants

  • Chinese: 貶 / 贬 (OC *pr[e/o/a]mʔ (B-S), *pamʔ (Schuessler), “to reduce, lower”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: འཕམ ('pham, “to be defeated”)
  • Bodo-Garo
    • Garo: bama (“to submit”)
  • Proto-Tangkhulic: *pam (“to sit”)
  • Kho-Bwa
    • Proto-Western Kho-Bwa: *pʰʷam (“to be defeated”)
  • Manipuri: ꯐꯝ (pham, “to sit”)
  • Lepcha: ᰓᰦᰮ (bám, “to dwell, stay”)

References

  1. ^ Bodt, Timotheus A. (2024), Proto-Western Kho-Bwa: Reconstructing a community’s past through language (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series; 64)‎[1], Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 214
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