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Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s-r(j)a-j/s/t

This Proto-Sino-Tibetan entry contains reconstructed terms 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-r(y)a-y/s/t (Matisoff, STEDT), *rya-t (Benedict, 1972; LaPolla, 1987; Michailovsky, 1991); *ryɑ-t (Chou, 1972)

Verb

*s-r(j)a-j/s/t

  1. to laugh

Descendants
  • Old Chinese: 辴 /*tʰrər/ (B-S), /*tʰɯl/ (ZS) ("to laugh"); 嘕 (xiān) /*qʰran/ (ZS) ("a way of laughing")
    • Middle Chinese: 辴 (thrij); 嘕 (xiān) (hiᴇn)
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Written Tibetan: བཞད་པ (bzhad pa, “to laugh, smile”), གཞའ་བ (gzha' ba, “to joke, play”), གཞས (gzhas, “joke, play, song”)
    • Kiranti
      /*rit-/ ("laugh") (Michailovsky, 1991)
  • Tangut-Qiang
    • rGyalrongic
      • Japhug: (nɤ)re
      • Situ: (na)ri
      • Tshobdun: rɐ
  • Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
    • Lolo-Burmese
      /*ray¹/ ("laugh") (Matisoff, 2003)
      • Burmish
        • Written Burmese: ရယ် (rai, “to laugh”)
        • Lhaovo: qi (“to laugh”) (IPA: [ɣì])
      • Loloish
        /*ray¹/ ("laugh") (Bradley, 1979)
        • Northern Loloish
          • Yi (Liangshan): ꒉ (yy, “to laugh, smile”)
        • Central Loloish
          • Lisu (Southern): ꓪꓽ ꓫꓱꓻ (wɑ̀ ʃø, “to laugh”)

See also
  • *m-nwi(j)-k (“to laugh”)
  • *s(j)aw (“to laugh”)
  • *rəj (“water”)
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