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Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/tsa

Not to be confused with *tsa ~ za (“child”).
 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: *dzar/tsar (Coblin, 1986)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *tsa (Matisoff, STEDT; Benedict, 1972; Chou, 1972)
[1] Salt pan.

Root

*tsa

  1. salt, salty, salted

Descendants
  • Old Chinese: 鹺 /*ɴ-tsˤaj/ (B-S), /*zlaːl/ (ZS) ("salt")
    • Middle Chinese: 鹺 /dzɑ/
      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: 鹺 (cuó, /t͡sʰu̯ɔ³⁵/)
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Written Tibetan: ཚྭ (tshwa, “salt”)
  • Tangut-Qiang
    • rGyalrongic
      • Situ: tsʰe (“salt”)
  • Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
    • Lolo-Burmese
      • Burmish
        • Burmese: ဆား (hca:, “salt”) /sʰá/
      • Loloish
        • Northern Loloish
          • Yi (Liangshan): ꋂ (ce, “salt”)
        • Central Loloish
          • Lisu (Northern): ꓞꓽ ꓐꓳꓺ (tsʰà bo, “salt”), ꓞꓼ ꓐꓳꓺ (tsʰà bo, “salt”)
  • Karen: *saᴮ (Luangthongkum, 2013)

See also
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