Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/r-tsij

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: *r-tsəj (STEDT)

Noun

*r-tsij

1. medicine
2. juice
3. paint

Descendants

• Chinese: 漆 (OC *[tsʰ]i[t] (B-S), “lacquer, paint”) (see there for further descendants)
• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Bodic
      • Tibetan
        • Written Tibetan: རྩི (rtsi, “juice; medicine; paint”)
• Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
      • Burmese: ဆေး (hce:, “medicine”)
• Sal
  • • Loloish
      • Northern Loloish
        • Yi (Liangshan): ꋌ (cy, “to wash”)
• Kachin-Luic
  • • Jingphoic
      • Jingpho: tsi (“medicine”)