#1016 PTB *s/g-la MOON / MONTH

We prefer the “paradigmatic” reconstruction *s/g‑la to the “syntagmatic” one offered in STC, *s‑gla.

Jingpho, Asakian and Ao have developed a dental stop from the original *lateral. See JAM 2013 (“The dinguist’s dilemma”).

The first element in Proto-Tani *po‑lo resembles the prefix-like onset of Proto-Loloish *bəla, but it is not possible to assign a meaning to it at present.

The Written Tibetan binome zla‑ba is paralleled by many Loloish forms, e.g., Lahu ha‑pa, Lisu hã³³ba⁴⁴, etc.

Lahu lɔ́‑pa is a poetic word for MOON, which is of doubtful relationship to the ordinary word ha‑pa. Cognates have just been found in several recently discovered Loloish languages of the “Mangish” group (Lama Ziwo 2015, in prep.): Mongi li¹³ e¹³ pɔ¹³, Mondzi lie¹³ pɔ¹³, Munji la³³ po³¹.