Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/sat

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: *sriat (Coblin, 1986)
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *g/b-sat (Matisoff, STEDT); *g-sat (LaPolla, 1987; Benedict, 1972); *g-sɑ̂t (Chou, 1972)

Compare Proto-Monic *k-r-cət ("to kill") (Mon ဃာစိုတ် (həcɒt, “to kill”)), Proto-Mon-Khmer *gət ~ gut (“to kill”) (Khmer គុត (kut, “to kill, to slay”)) ~ Vietnamese giết (“to kill”).

< Proto-Mon-Khmer *kc(ə)t (“to die”) (Proto-Monic *kcət, Vietnamese chết).

Verb

*sat

1. to kill
2. to hit, to strike

Descendants

• Chinese: 殺 / 杀 (OC /*s‹r›at/ (B-S), /*sreːd/ (ZS), “to kill”), 殺 / 杀 (OC /*s‹r›at-s/ (B-S), /*sreːds/ (ZS), “to diminish”) (see there for further descendants)
• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Bodic
      • Tibetan
        • Written Tibetan: གསོད་པ (gsod pa, “to kill, to slaughter, to murder; to extinguish, to eliminate, to eradicate, to annihilate”) (pf. བསད (bsad))
• Boro-Garo
  • Garo: so·ota
• Jingpho-Asakian
  • Jingpho: sat (“to kill”)
• rGyalrongic
  • Japhug: sat
  • Tangut: 𗜍 (*sja¹)
• Proto-Lolo-Burmese: *C-sat (“to kill”)
  • Burmish
    • Burmese: သတ် (sat, “to kill; to quench (fire); to fight, to struggle”)
  • Loloish
    • Northern Loloish
      • Yi (Liangshan): ꌉ (sit, “to kill; to stab; to fight a war”)
    • Central Loloish
      • Lisu: ꓢꓰꓼ (sè̱, “to kill”)
• Kuki-Chin-Naga
  • Proto-Kuki-Chin: *that, *thaʔ (“to kill”)
    • Central Chin
      • Mizo: that, thah (“to kill”)

See also

• *gum ~ kum (“to die, to kill”)
• *səj (“to die”)