Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/qrak

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: ?
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *krak (STEDT)

Root

*qrak

1. red
2. blood

Descendants

• Chinese: 赤 (OC *[t-qʰ](r)Ak, “red”), 赫 (OC *qʰˤrak, “bright red”) (see there for further descendants)
• Bodish: *kʰrak
  • Tibetic:
    • Tibetan: ཁྲག (khrag, “blood”)
    • Dzongkha: ཁྲག (khrag)
    • Sherpa: ཁྲག (khrag)
• Lolo-Burmese
  • Burmish
    • >? Burmese: ရှက် (hrak) (placed here by Hill 2019; it is much more likely to actually come from *srək)