Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/rin

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

See Schuessler (2007: 354) and Hill (2019: 215) for comparisons.

Noun

*rin

  1. pity
  2. love

Descendants

  • Chinese: 憐 / 怜 (OC *rˤiŋ (B-S)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: དྲིན (drin, “kindness”)
  • Lolo-Burmese
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