Old Sinitic "wheat" and Early Middle Sinitic "camel"
Language Log 2023-06-12
Summary:
[This is a guest post by Chris Button] OC uvulars tended to condition rounding (e.g OC q- becoming EMC kw-). In the case of ʁ-, we sometimes get m- (for a modern-day example, note how惟, which also had a ʁ- onset in Old Chinese, gives an m- reflex in Fuzhou Min). The classic example is […]