Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/ŋa-j ~ ka
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan
editEtymology
edit- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ngaɣ/ngay (Coblin, 1986)
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *ŋa (Chou, 1972; Benedict, 1972); *ŋɑ (Chou, 1972); *ŋay (Benedict, 1972); *ŋǎy (Matisoff, 1985); *ŋay (Weidert, 1987); *ka ⪤ ŋa (LaPolla, 1987); *ŋa-y (Matisoff, 2003); *ŋa-y ⪤ *ka (Matisoff, STEDT)
Pronoun
edit*ŋa-j ~ ka
Descendants
edit- Old Chinese: 吾 /*ŋˤa/ (B-S); /*ŋaː/ (ZS) ("I"), 我 /*ŋˤajʔ/ (B-S); /*ŋaːlʔ/ (ZS) ("I")
- (Note: Gong Hwang-cherng (Gong Huangcheng) argued that the distinction between 吾 and 我 was that of the nominative/accusative or subject/oblique cases. 吾 (*ŋag in his reconstruction) was the nominative case pronoun, and 我 (*ŋal) was the accusative case pronoun.)
- (我 in the oracle bone script)
- Middle Chinese: 吾 (ŋuo), 我 (ŋɑX) (Both words survive in compounds and as literary readings. Listed below are the colloquial words for "I" in each dialect, all from this etymon.) The template Template:Sinoxenic does not use the parameter(s):
5=a
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- Kamarupan
- Himalayish
- Tangut-Qiang
- Jingpho-Asakian
- Nungic
- Anong: ŋa
- Nungic
- Proto-Kuki-Chin: *kaj ~ kaj-maʔ (VanBik, 2009)
- Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
- Proto-Tani: *ŋoo
- Proto-Kuki-Chin: *kay
- Khomic
- Khumi Chin: kai
- Khomic
- Proto-Kho-Bwa: