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Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/tsik
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Etymology
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tsik (Coblin, 1986)
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *tsik (Matisoff, STEDT; Benedict, 1972; Coblin, 1986; Chou, 1972)
Descendants
- Old Chinese: 節 (*tsˁik ("B-S"), *ʔsiːg (ZS), “joint, knot, mode, section; period, festival”)
- Middle Chinese: 節 /tset/
→ Vietnamese: tết (“festival”), Tết (“Vietnamese New Year”)
- Modern Mandarin
- Beijing: 節 (jié, /t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/)
- Himalayish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Bodic
- Tibetan
- Written Tibetan: ཚིགས (tshigs, “joint, junction, link; verse line”)
- Tibetan
- Bodic
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
- Lolo-Burmese
- *ʔdzik ⪤ *ʔdzak (“joint”) (Matisoff, 1972); *ʔ-dzikᴸ (Matisoff, 2003)
- Burmish
- Burmese: ဆစ် (hcac, “to chop, to cut off; joint”) (> အဆစ် (a.hcac, “joint, node”))
- Loloish
- *C-dzikᴸ (Bradley, 1979)
- Northern Loloish
- Yi (Liangshan): ꊨ (zyt, “joint, section; to fasten or join pieces together”)
- Central Loloish
- Lisu (Southern): ꓝꓲꓸ (tsɨ́, “joint, joist, house stud; time, season”)
- Lolo-Burmese
See also
- *s-dzak (“to join”)
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