Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/grwat

This Proto-Sino-Tibetan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Sino-Tibetan

Etymology

• Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *grwat (Matisoff, STEDT)

Verb

*grwat

1. to travel, go through

Descendants

• Old Chinese: 越 (*ɢʷat (B-S); *ɢʷad (ZS), “to go beyond, to transgress”), 歲／岁 (*s-qʷʰat-s, *s-qʷʰat (B-S); *sqʰʷads, *sqʰʷad (ZS), “Jupiter (travelling planet); year”)
  • Middle Chinese: 越 (ɦʉɐt), 歲／岁 (siuᴇiH, siuᴇt)
    • Modern Mandarin
      • Beijing: 越 (yuè, /ɥ̯œ⁵¹/), 歲／岁 (suì) (suì, /su̯eɪ̯⁵¹/)
• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Bodic
      • Tibetan
        • Written Tibetan: འགྲོ་བ ('gro ba, “to go”)

See also

• *s-wa-ŋ (“to go”)