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Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/guŋ

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: *kjəngw ~ *gjəngw (Coblin, 1986)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *guŋ (Matisoff, STEDT; Benedict, 1972; Chou, 1972); *gung (LaPolla, 1987; Coblin, 1986)

Despite the phonetic resemblance between this root, Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(k/g)um (“body, back”) and Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(k/ʔ)uk (“back, crooked”), the three are probably unrelated.

Noun

*guŋ

  1. body
  2. back

Descendants
  • Old Chinese: 躬 (gōng) /*k(r)uŋ/ (B-S), /*kuŋ/ (ZS) ("body")
    • Middle Chinese: 躬 (gōng /kɨuŋ/, “body”)

      → Japanese: 躬 (く, きゅう, ​ku, kyū)
      Korean: 궁 (躬, gung)
      Vietnamese: cung, còng (躬)

      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: 躬 (gōng, /kʊŋ⁵⁵/, “body”)
      • Wu
        • Shanghai: 躬 (/kʊŋ⁵³/, “body”)
      • Yue
        • Cantonese: 躬 (/kʊŋ⁵⁵/, “body”)
    • Min Nan
      • Xiamen: 躬 (/kiɔŋ⁴⁴/, “body”)
  • Tangut-Qiang
    • Northern Tangut
      • Tangut: 𗧍 (*kow¹, “body”)
  • Jingpho–Luish:
    • Jingpho: gong (“physical body”)
  • Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
    • Lolo-Burmese:
      *guŋ¹ (“body, person”) (Matisoff, 2003)
      • Loloish
        • Yi: ꇭꀧ (gop bo, “body”), ꈯꄿ (ggur dda, “body”)
      • Burmish
        • Burmese
          • Written Burmese: အကောင် (a.kaung)
  • Nungish:
    • Trung/Derung/Drung: gong (“back; body; health”)
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