Tibetan vwa ‘fox’ and the sound change Tibeto-Burman *wa > Tibetan o

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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Main Author: Hill, Nathan W.
Other Authors: Harvard University
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Language:English
Published: 2024
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Old Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1779342024-06-05T01:53:24Z Tibetan vwa ‘fox’ and the sound change Tibeto-Burman *wa > Tibetan o Hill, Nathan W. Harvard University Arts and Humanities Old Tibetan Tibeto-Burman 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- Published version 2024-06-05T01:53:23Z 2024-06-05T01:53:23Z 2006 Journal Article Hill, N. W. (2006). Tibetan vwa ‘fox’ and the sound change Tibeto-Burman *wa > Tibetan o. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 29(2), 79-94. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.29.2.03 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177934 10.32655/LTBA.29.2.03 2 29 79 94 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 2006 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf
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Old Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman
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Old Tibetan
Tibeto-Burman
Hill, Nathan W.
Tibetan vwa ‘fox’ and the sound change Tibeto-Burman *wa > Tibetan o
description 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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author Hill, Nathan W.
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title Tibetan vwa ‘fox’ and the sound change Tibeto-Burman *wa > Tibetan o
title_short Tibetan vwa ‘fox’ and the sound change Tibeto-Burman *wa > Tibetan o
title_full Tibetan vwa ‘fox’ and the sound change Tibeto-Burman *wa > Tibetan o
title_fullStr Tibetan vwa ‘fox’ and the sound change Tibeto-Burman *wa > Tibetan o
title_full_unstemmed Tibetan vwa ‘fox’ and the sound change Tibeto-Burman *wa > Tibetan o
title_sort tibetan vwa ‘fox’ and the sound change tibeto-burman *wa > tibetan o
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