dragon
—
thunder
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Khaling | |
| Lexeme | prengme | |
| Meaning 1 | dragon | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | thunderbolt, lightning | |
| Reference | Khaling dictionary | |
| Comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Tibetan | |
| Lexeme | 'brug (འབྲུག) | |
| Meaning 1 | dragon | |
| Direction | — | |
| Meaning 2 | thunder | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
Dragons are associated with thunder in Eastern mythology (China, Mongolia etc.). Proto-Tibeto-Burman *m-bruŋ ~ m-bruk 'dragon, thunder' (Matisoff 2003, STEDT), probably akin of Old Chinese *[mə]-roŋ (Baxter–Sagart), *b·roŋ (Zhengzhang), Middle Chinese lɨoŋ, Mandarin Chinese lóng (龍, 龙) 'dragon'; Old Chinese *brɯŋs (Zhengzhang), Middle Chinese bɨŋH, Mandarin Chinese bìng (靐) 'thunder'.