Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/kan

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: *kan (Coblin, 1986)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *kan (Matisoff, 2003; STEDT)

Verb

*kan

  1. to be dry

Descendants

  • Chinese: 乾 / 干 (OC *[k]ˤar (B-S), *kaːn (ZS)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Lolo-Burmese
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