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Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s-nap

This Proto-Sino-Tibetan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan

Etymology
  • Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *s-nap (Matisoff, STEDT; LaPolla, 1987; Benedict, 1972)

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-na (“nose”) with suffix *-p. See there for more.

Noun

*s-nap

  1. snot, nasal mucus

Descendants
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Written Tibetan: སྣབས (snabs, “snot, nasal mucus”)
  • Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
    • Lolo-Burmese
      • Burmish
        • Written Burmese: နှပ် (hnap, “snot, nose mucus”)
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