*m-bru(ŋ/k)
Connections
Notes
This mythical animal has been associated with WATER, RAINBOW, and THUNDER. Some forms which look as if they might descend from this root should actually be assigned to #2465 PTB *muːŋ ⪤ *r/s-muːk FOGGY / DARK / SULLEN / MENACING / THUNDER.
Chinese comparandum
龍 OC *li̯ung, GSR #1193a-e ‘dragon’; Gong 2001:24 *m-bruŋ / *m-bruk; B & S 2011: *mə-roŋ {[mə]-roŋ}; Mand. lóng.
隆 OC *gli̯ông, GSR #1015f ‘thunder, sound of thunder’; Schuessler 2007:363 *ruŋ; B & S 2011: *ruŋ {[r]uŋ}; Mand. lóng.
雹 OC *b’ộk, GSR #1113n ‘hail’; B & S 2011: *C.bˁruk {C.[b]ˁruk}; Mand. báo.
Gong 2001:24 and HPTB #585 compare the current etymon, PTB *m-bru(ŋ/k) ‘dragon; rain’, with Chinese 龍 lóng ‘dragon’. Both these etyma may be allofamic with 雹 báo ‘hail’, as suggested by the latter’s reconstruction as *C.bˁruk in B & S 2011.
[SPB]
Reflexes & cognates142 reflexes · 11 subgroups
0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1
1.1.2Deng12
2.1.2Bodic14
2.1.2.1Tibetan36
2.1.4Tamangish1
3.2Qiangic34
3.3rGyalrongic7
3.3.1rGyalrong2
4Nungic9
5Tujia9
6.1.1Burmish18
Cite this entry
*m-bru(ŋ/k) ‘DRAGON / THUNDER’.https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3629BibTeX
@misc{stedt-3629,
title = {{*m-bru(ŋ/k) 'DRAGON / THUNDER'}},
author = {STEDT},
year = {2017},
note = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #3629},
url = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3629}
}