Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/səj
Proto-Sino-TibetanEdit
EtymologyEdit
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *syid (Coblin, 1986)
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *səy (Matisoff, STEDT; French, 1983); *səy, *siy (Weidert, 1987; Chou, 1972); *siy = *səy (LaPolla, 1987); *siy (Benedict, 1972; Michailovsky, 1991); *syiy(?) (Coblin, 1986)
Chinese 尸 / 屍 ("corpse") perhaps belongs here too.
VerbEdit
*səj
- to die
DescendantsEdit
- Old Chinese: 死 /*sijʔ/ (B-S); /*l̥jiʔ/ (ZS) ("to die")
- Himalayish
- Sal
- Bodo-Koch
- Bodo-Garo
- Garo: sia
- Bodo-Garo
- Bodo-Koch
- Tangut-Qiang
- Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
- Proto-Karen: *sejᴬ (Luangthongkum, 2013)
See alsoEdit
- *g/b-sat (“to kill”)
- *s-riŋ ~ s-r(j)aŋ (“to live, alive, green, raw, to give birth”)