Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/bjar ~ pjar

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: *piar/biar (Coblin, 1986)
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *byar ⪤ *pyar (Matisoff, STEDT; Benedict, 1972), *byɑ̂r~pyɑ̂r (Chou, 1972)

Related to *p(r)an/t ~ b(r)an/t (“to braid, to weave, to plait”).

Verb

*bjar ~ pjar

1. to affix, to plait, to sew, to braid

Descendants

• Kamarupan
  • Kuki-Chin
    • Central Chin
      • Lushai [Mizo]: phiar (“to knit, to plait”)
• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Bodic
      • Tibetan
        • Written Tibetan: འབྱར་བ ('byar ba, “to stick to, to adhere to”), སྦྱོར་བ (sbyor ba, “to link, to join; to affix, to attach”)

See also

• *tak ~ dak (“to weave, to plait”)