Thoughts on the Etyma for ‘corpse’ in Gyalrongic languages

• Main Author: Lai, Yunfan
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Terms for ‘corpse’; Etymology; Historical linguistics; Gyalrongic; Sino-Tibetan
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/181102; https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12303
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper studies the four distinct native terms for ‘corpse’ attested in Gyalrongic languages. Through comparative analysis, it establishes the sound correspondences among cognates and proposes preliminary reconstructions. In a second step, it hypothesises on the origins of the etyma by examining...