Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/sij

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: *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 屍 / 尸 (“corpse”) perhaps belongs here too.

Verb

*sij

1. to die

Descendants

• Chinese: 死 (/*sijʔ/ (B-S); /*l̥jiʔ/ (ZS), “to die”) (see there for further descendants)
• 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))
      • East Bodish
        • Kurtöp: སེ (se)
• Sal
  • Bodo-Koch
    • Bodo-Garo
      • Garo: sia
  • Jingpho-Asakian
    • Jingpho: si (“to die”)
• rGyalrongic
  • West rGyalrongic
    • Tangut: 𗈶 (*sjɨ¹, “to die”), 𗴨 (*sjɨ̣¹, “to die”)
  • East rGyalrongic
    • Japhug: si
    • Situ: (ka)ʃi, -ʃu
    • Tshobdun: set
• Naic
  • Naish: *rsi (with an extra prefixed r-)
    • Naxi: shee
    • Narua: shi (/⁠ʂɯ˧⁠/)
• Proto-Lolo-Burmese: *səj¹ (“to die”)
  • Burmish
    • Burmese: သေ (se, “to die”)
  • Proto-Loloish: *ʃe² (“to die”)
    • Northern Loloish
      • Yi (Liangshan): ꌦ (sy, “to die; to extinguish, to smother”)
    • Central Loloish
      • Lisu: ꓫꓵꓺ (ʃɨ̱, “to die”)
      • Lipo: 𖼳𖽡𖾐 (“to die”)
      • Lolopo: si (“to die”)
• Proto-Karen: *sejᴬ (Luangthongkum, 2013)
  • S'gaw Karen: သံ (thee, “to die, to perish”)
  • Pa'o Karen: သီ
  • Western Pwo: ၥံၫ
  • Western Kayah: ꤞꤛꤢꤩ꤭ (thyē)
• Kuki-Chin-Naga
  • Proto-Kuki-Chin: *thii, *thiʔ (“to die”)
    • Central Chin
      • Mizo: thi, thih (“to die”)

See also

• *g/b-sat (“to kill”)
• *s-riŋ ~ s-r(j)aŋ (“to live, alive, green, raw, to give birth”)