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Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/səj

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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

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Etymology

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  • Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *syid (Coblin, 1986)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *səy (Matisoff, STEDT; French, 1983); *səy, *siy (Weidert, 1987; Chou, 1972); *siy = *səy (LaPolla, 1987); *siy (Benedict, 1972; Michailovsky, 1991); *syiy(?) (Coblin, 1986)

Chinese  / (corpse) perhaps belongs here too.

Verb

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*səj

  1. to die

Descendants

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  • Old Chinese: () /*sijʔ/ (B-S); /*l̥jiʔ/ (ZS) ("to die")
    (in the oracle bone script)
    • Middle Chinese: (siɪX)
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Japanese:  (, ​shi)
Korean:  (, sa)
Vietnamese: tử ()

      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: () (, /sz̩²¹⁴/)
      • Cantonese
        • Guangzhou: () /sei³⁵/, /ɕiː³⁵/
      • Wu
        • Shanghai: () /ɕi³⁴/ (colloquial), /sz̩³⁴/ (literary)
    • Min
      • Min Nan
        • Taiwan: () /ɕi⁵¹/ (colloquial), /su⁵¹/ (literary)
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Dzongkha: ཤི (shi, to die, to wilt, to dampen)
          • Written Tibetan: འཆི་བ ('chi ba, to die; to be destroyed) (pf. ཤི (shi))
  • Sal
    • Bodo-Koch
      • Bodo-Garo
    • Jingpho-Asakian
      • Jingpho: si (to die)
  • Tangut-Qiang
    • Northern Tangut
      • Tangut: 𗈶 (*sjɨ¹, to die), 𗴨 (*sjɨ̣¹, to die)
    • rGyalrongic
  • Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
    • Proto-Lolo-Burmese: *səj¹ (to die)
      • Burmish
        • Burmese: သေ (se, to die)
      • Proto-Loloish: *ʃe² (to die)
        • Northern Loloish
          • Yi (Liangshan): (sy, to die; to extinguish, to smother)
        • Central Loloish
  • Proto-Karen: *sejᴬ (Luangthongkum, 2013)
  • Kuki-Chin-Naga

See also

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