March 26, 2012

འབྲང་། འབྲིང་།

’brang, ’bring:

Walter Simon (Simon 1980: 132) has suggested that ’brang “to follow” and ’bring “second-rate, medium, mediocre, moderate” are related, just like Latin secundus “second,” which is derived from sequi “to follow.”


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