Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/muːŋ ~ r/s-muːk

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

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Etymology

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  • Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *mruk/mrjuɣ (Coblin, 1986)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *(r-)maw = (r-)məw, *muːŋ ⪤ **r/s-muːk (Matisoff, STEDT); *r-muw = *r-məw ⪤ *r-muuk (LaPolla, 1987); *(r-)məw, *(r-)muw (Weidert, 1987); *(r-)muw (Benedict, 1972)

Here is a merger of the two roots proposed by Matisoff (above), per LaPolla (1987): "Evidence from Dulong supports the contention in STC (n.236, p.77) that *r‑muuk is an archaic doublet of *r‑muw = *r‑məw" (p.11).

Words meaning "dark, covered, obscure, dull" and the like in Sino-Tibetan languages tend to have the phonesthemic initial *m- followed by a back vowel (Schuessler, 2007).

 
[1] Fog.

Adjective

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*s-muːk

  1. fog, cloud, mist
  2. sky, heaven
  3. foggy, misty, dark, dull
  4. sullen, menacing

Descendants

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  • Old Chinese:
    *mogs (ZS) (*kə.mok-s (B-S),, fog, mist); *moːŋ (ZS) (dark, dim)

    Proto-Vietic: *k-mɔːk ("fog") (whence Pong /kʰmɔːk/)
    Proto-Tai*ʰmoːkᴰ (fog, mist) (whence Thai หมอก (mɔ̀ɔk), Lao ໝອກ (mǭk))

    (*mˁrə (B-S), *mrɯː (ZS), haze)
    (*mˁ‹r›uk (B-S), *moːgs, *mroːg (ZS), dim-sighted)
    (*moːŋ (ZS), misty, drizzly; blind; ignorant, stupid; to cover, to cover up)
    (*moːŋ (ZS), drizzly, misty)
    (*moːŋ (ZS), blind, dark)
    霢霂霡霂 (*mreːg moːg (ZS, drizzle)

    (likely Vietnamese ("dark; blind")

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Japanese:  (, ​mu)
Korean:  (, mu)
Vietnamese: vụ ()

See also

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