We find mul in Darma (W????? [2007:581]), and the STEDT online database cites the forms Pa?ani mul and Kinnauri mölh (from notoriously unreliable sources) ?e only complex onsets in Darma (W????? [2007:61-2]) and other West Himalayish languages are of the C{w,j} type; a complex cluster su? as /km/ is not permi?ed by the phonotactics of these languages, as in Tamang. ?e Tani languages, spoken in Aruna?al Pradesh (North-Eastern India ) and neighbouring Tibet, are be?er known than many bran?es of Sino- Tibetan thanks to the comparative work of S?? [1993] and the grammar of Galo (citetPost08) Although some Tani languages have borrowed their word from 'silver' from Indic or Tibetan (S??, comprising Galo (R???? ?? ??. [2009]) and Bengni According to S??]'s sound laws, the syllable mur-in Galo and m?r-in Bengni can come from, p.60213, 1993. ,
We can therefore propose a proto-Tani *mul 'silver' based on Galo and Bengni. Only clusters of the type C{r, l, j, w} can be reconstructed for proto-Tani (S?? [1993:55-7]) and even these have been simplified in most languages.¹² Lolo-Burmese is perhaps the best documented of all the bran?es of Sino-Tibetan, spoken from Eastern Bangladesh to Vietnam, with the greatest diversity in Yunnan (China). ?e word usually reconstructed for 'silver' in proto-Lolo-Burmese is *C-?we¹ (B?????? [1979] #401b, but in several Loloish languages this etymon has become the autonym (B?????? [1979]) and it was replaced by the word *plu¹ 'white' (#501) in the meaning 'silver'. However some Burmish languages su? as Hpun (H???????? have forms that could go ba? to proto-Lolo-Burmese *mwe and, 1986. ,
mul by regular sound laws. ?e actual Hpun form for 'silver' is myái?. ?e rhyme Hpun ?ai? has many distinct origins in proto-LB (quoted from B?????? [1979]): Given the correspondence of 'hair, feather', a proto-form *mul¹ is ,
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