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

Hill, Nathan W.

Abstract

Paul Benedict (1972: 34) proposed that Tibeto-Burman medial *-waregularly leads to -0- 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 v- and not w-.

Citation

Hill, N. W. (2006). Tibetan vwa ‘fox’ and the sound change Tibeto-Burman *wa -> Old Tibetan o. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area, 29(2), 75-90

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2006
• Deposit Date: Oct 14, 2008
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 10, 2025
• Journal: Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area
• Print ISSN: 0731-3500
• Electronic ISSN: 2214-5907
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 75-90
• Publisher URL: http://stedt.berkeley.edu/ltba/
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