Note Tibetan √lan 'reply'

摘要

Recognising the parallelism between the conjugation of a verb such as √lug 'pour' (pres. ldug, Past blugs, fut. blug, imp. lhugs 'pour' and a verb such as √kru 'wash' (hkhrud, bkrus, bkru, khrus), Li Fang-Kuei suggests deriving the present stem ldug from a reconstruction ~*hlug (1933: 149). In this sub-case of Conrady's law, the change of ~*hl to ld- may be analyzed into the following changes: ~*hl ＞ ~*hdl ＞ ~*hld ＞ ld (cf. Conrady 1896: 59, Li 1933: 149, Hill 2011: 446-447, Hill 2013: 193-195). This sound change obscures the synchronic relationship between verb forms beginning with ld- and other present formations, and the resultant synchronic opacity gives rise to analogical forms (e.g. the alternate present blug). Consequently, the dictionaries present a certain level of confusion about the paradigms of lateral initial verbs. In many cases enough of the traditional lexicographical sources present enough of the etymologically correct stems for the pattern to emerge despite the noise. For example, a root √lud 'give to drink' on the model of hkhrud, bkrus, bkru, khrus 'wash', should have the stems ~*ldud (＜ ~*hlud), ~*blud, ~*blud, ~*lud. Hill (2010: 159) presents the following paradigm for this verb on the basis of nine lexicographical sources; the digit following each stem is the number of lexica which report that form.