Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/zrjaŋ ~ rjaŋ

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

Etymology

• Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *zryaŋ ⪤ *ryaŋ (Matisoff, STEDT); *źraŋ, *ryaŋ (Benedict, 1972); *źrɑŋ (Chou, 1972)

Noun

*zrjaŋ ~ rjaŋ

1. uncle, superior

Descendants

• Old Chinese: 丈 (zhàng) /*draŋʔ/ (B-S), /*daŋʔ/ (ZS) ("old man")
  • Middle Chinese: 丈 (ɖɨɐŋX)
    • Modern Mandarin
      • Beijing: 丈 (zhàng) (zhàng, /ʈʂɑŋ⁵¹/)
    • Cantonese
      • Guangzhou: 丈 (zhàng) /t͡sœːŋ²²/
• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Bodic
      • Tibetan
        • Written Tibetan: ཞང (zhang, “maternal uncle”) (> ཞང་ཞང (zhang zhang), ཞང་པོ (zhang po), ཨ་ཞང (a zhang, “maternal uncle”))
          • Ladakhi–Balti
            • Ladakhi: ཨ་ཞང (a zhang, “maternal uncle”)
• Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
      • Written Burmese: အရှင် (a.hrang, “master, lord, owner”)

See also

• *maŋ (“big, elder, old”)
• *gəw-n ~ kəw-n (“elder brother, senior male relative”)