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Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s/ɡ-la

This Proto-Sino-Tibetan entry contains reconstructed words 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: *s/ɡ-la (Matisoff, STEDT); *s-la ⪤ *g-la = *s-gla (LaPolla, 1987); *s-la ⪤ g-la, *s-gla (Benedict, 1972); *s-gla, *g-la (Weidert, 1987)

Noun

*s/ɡ-la

  1. moon
  2. month

Descendants
  • Old Chinese: 夕 (“evening, night, end (of year, month)”); 汐 (“night tide”); both: *s-ɴ-rak (B-S); *ljaːg (ZS); *sɢlag (PW)
    • Middle Chinese: 夕, 汐 (ziᴇk)

    • →   Japanese:  夕 (せき, ​seki)
            Korean:  석 (夕, seok)
            Vietnamese:  tịch (夕)

      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: 夕, 汐 (xī, /ɕi⁵⁵/)
      • Cantonese
        • Guangzhou: 夕, 汐 /t͡ɕɪk̚²/
      • Wu
        • Shanghai: 夕, 汐 /ʑ̻iɪ̆ʔ¹²/
    • Min
      • Min Nan
        • Taiwan: 夕 /ɕi̯aʔ⁵/ (colloquial); /sek̚⁵/ (literary); 汐 /sek̚⁵/ (literary)
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Written Tibetan: ཟླ་བ (zla ba, “moon, month”)
            • → Situ: zlawa (“moon”)
  • Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
    • Lolo-Burmese
      • Burmish
        • Burmese: လ (la., “moon, month”)
      • Loloish
        • Northern Loloish
          • Yi (Liangshan): ꆧꁨ (hlop bbop, “moon”), ꆪ (hlep, “moon (literary), month”)
  • Karen: *Ɂlaᴬ (Luangthongkum, 2013)
    • Sgaw: လါ (lā, “moon, month”)

See also
  • *nəj (“sun”)
  • *s-ŋʷ(j)a-t (“star, moon”)
  • *krəj (“moon, moonlight”)
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