Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/krəp

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

Reconstruction

• Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *khljəp (Coblin, 1986)
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *krap (Matisoff, STEDT; Benedict, 1972; Coblin, 1986; Weidert, 1987; Michailovsky, 1991); *krɑp (Chou, 1972)

Verb

*krəp

1. to weep

Descendants

• Chinese: 泣 (OC /*k-r̥əp/ (B-S), /*kʰrɯb/ (ZS), “to weep”) (see there for further descendants)
• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Bodic
      • Tibetan
        • Written Tibetan: ཁྲབ་ཁྲབ (khrab khrab, “weeper, one that sheds tears on every occasion”)
    • Tamangic

      *ᴬkra, ᴮkraː (“cry, weep”) (Mazaudon, 1994)

  • Kiranti: /*khrap/ ("weep") (Michailovsky, 1991)
• Proto-Kuki-Chin: *krap-I, kraʔ-II (“weep, cry”) (VanBik, 2009)
  • Central Chin
    • Mizo: ṭap, ṭah (“to cry, weep, lament”)
• Jingpho-Asakian
  • Jingpho: hkrap (“to weep, cry”)
• Northern Naga: /*krəp/ ("weep") (French, 1983)
• Tangkhulic: /*cap/ ("weep") (Mortensen, 2012)
• Tani: /*krap/ ("weep") (Sun, 1993)

See also

• *ŋuw (“to cry”)
• *s-r(j)a-j/s/t (“to laugh”)
• *g-r(j)ap (“to stand”)