Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/səj
Proto-Sino-Tibetan edit
Etymology edit
- 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 屍/尸 (“corpse”) perhaps belongs here too.
Verb edit
*səj
- to die
Descendants edit
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→ Japanese: 死 (し, shi)
Korean: 사 (死, sa)
Vietnamese: tử (死)
- Himalayish
- Sal
- Tangut-Qiang
- Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
- Proto-Karen: *sejᴬ (Luangthongkum, 2013)
- Kuki-Chin-Naga
See also edit
- *g/b-sat (“to kill”)
- *s-riŋ ~ s-r(j)aŋ (“to live, alive, green, raw, to give birth”)