Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/rum

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: *hləm (Coblin, 1986)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *d-rum (Benedict, 1972; Matisoff, 2003; STEDT)

This comparison may also be found in Schuessler (2007:488-489).

Always attested with a prefix in descendants.

Verb

*rum

  1. to covet, desire

Descendants

  • Chinese: 貪 / 贪 (OC *r̥ˤ[ə]m (B-S), “to be greedy”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: དྲུམ (drum, “to long, pine for”)
  • Jingpho-Asakian
    • Jingpho: marim (“to be gluttonous”)
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