Hill, Nathan W. (2013) 'Old Chinese *sm- and the Old Tibetan Word for ‘Fire’.' Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 42 (1). pp. 60-71.
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Abstract
Several sinologists have compared Chinese xjwɨjX 'burn' or xwaX 'fire' to an Old Tibetan word smye 'fire'. No such Old Tibetan word exists. Instead, mye is the Old Tibetan word for fire and smye, also spelled dmeḥ, means 'stain, impurity, sin'. Tibetan evidence in this case does not support a reconstruction *sm- in Old Chinese.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Keywords: | Old Chinese; fire; Old Tibetan; Or. 15000/265, s-prefix |
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures Legacy Departments > Faculty of Languages and Cultures > Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia Legacy Departments > Faculty of Languages and Cultures > Department of Linguistics |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PI Oriental languages and literatures P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania |
| ISSN: | 01533320 |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1163/15685322-0421P0004 |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Dec 2013 18:53 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/17858 |
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