Tibetan vwa ‘fox’ and the sound change Tibeto-Burman *wa > Tibetan o
Paul Benedict (1972: 34) proposed that Tibeto-Burman medial *-wa regularly leads to -o- in Old Tibetan, but that initial *wa did not undergo this change. Because Old Tibetan has no initial w-, and several genuine words have the rhyme -wa, this proposal cannot be accepted. In particular, the in...
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2024
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| Summary: | Paul Benedict (1972: 34) proposed that Tibeto-Burman medial *-wa regularly leads to -o- in Old Tibetan, but that initial *wa did not
undergo this change. Because Old Tibetan has no initial w-, and
several genuine words have the rhyme -wa, this proposal cannot be
accepted. In particular, the intial of the Old Tibetan word vwa ‘fox’
is འ v- and not w- |
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