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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177934
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English