Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/r/s-mwəj

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-mjwiəd (Coblin, 1986)
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *r/s-mwəy (Matisoff, STEDT); *(s-)mwəy, *(r-)mwəy, *mwiy (Weidert, 1987); *rmwiy (*C) (?) (Coblin, 1986); *(r-)mwəy ~ (s-)mwəy (Chou, 1972); *mwiy (Benedict, 1972)

Verb

*s-mwəj

1. to sleep
2. to dream

Descendants

• Old Chinese: 寐 (mèi) /*mit-s/ (B-S), /*mids/ (ZS) ("to sleep; a sound sleep")
  • Middle Chinese: 寐 (miɪH)
    • Modern Mandarin
      • Beijing: 寐 (mèi) (mèi, /meɪ̯⁵¹/)
• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Bodic
      • Tibetan
        • Written Tibetan: རྨི་བ (rmi ba, “to dream”) (pf. རྨིས (rmis)), རྨི་ལམ (rmi lam, “dream”)
• Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
      • Written Burmese: မွေ့ (mwe., “to enjoy (sleep)”)
• Karenic
  • S'gaw Karen: မံ (mee)
  • Western Pwo: မံၫ
  • Western Kayah: ꤥ꤬ꤗꤛꤢꤩ (òmye)

See also

• *m-njal ~ s-njal (“to sleep, to lie down; sleepy”)
• *g-(d)zim ~ g-(d)zum (“to sleep”)
• *s-jip ~ s-jup (“to sleep, to hide”)
• *(s/r)-ma(ŋ/k) (“to dream”)