Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/b-liŋ

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: *b-liŋ (Matisoff, STEDT; Benedict, 1972)

Noun

*b-liŋ

field
forest

Descendants

Old Chinese: 田 /*lˤiŋ/ (B-S), /*lʼiːŋ/ (ZS) (“field, farmland; to cultivate, to farm; to hunt”)
- Middle Chinese: 田 /den/
  → Japanese: 田 (でん, den)
  Korean: 전 (田, jeon)
  Vietnamese: điền (田)
  - Mandarin:
    - Beijing: 田 (tián) /tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
  - Cantonese:
    - Guangzhou-Hong Kong: 田 (tin⁴) /tʰiːn²¹/
Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
- Lolo-Burmese
  *b(y)etᴸ (Matisoff, 1972)
  - Burmish
    - Burmese: ‌တလင်း (‌ta.lang:, “field, bare ground, threshing floor”)
Himalayish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
  - Bodic
    - Tibetan
      - Written Tibetan: ཞིང (zhing, “field, realm, cultivation, region, country”), ལིངས (lings, “hunting, chase”)

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