Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/kl(j)u(ŋ/k)

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *klu(ː)ŋ ~ *k(l)uk ~ *klyoŋ (Matisoff, STEDT); *kluːŋ (Benedict, 1972; Chou, 1972)

This word is fairly common in the Mainland Southeast Asian Sprachbund (Matisoff, 1991). The PTB etymon is probably a loan from 🇨🇬. Compare for instance 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Other borrowings from PMK are 🇨🇬 in Tai-Kadai and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 in Austronesian.

In Chinese there are two kind of reflexes: one with a nasal coda, found in and its derivate, and one with the correspondent velar stop, reconstructed for.

This root appear to be somehow related to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) river
 * 2) valley

Descendants

 * Old Chinese: // (B-S),  (ZS) ("river");   (ZS) ("harbour");  // (B-S),  (ZS).
 * Middle Chinese: ;  ;


 * Modern Chinese
 * Beijing: ; ;
 * Cantonese: ; ;
 * Wu: ; ;
 * Min Nan: ; ;
 * Tangkhulic: (Mortensen, 2012)
 * Tangkhul:
 * Sal
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Loloish
 * Nusu:
 * Burmish
 * Nusu:
 * Burmish