Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/srəwt

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:
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *sut ⪤ *sit (Matisoff, 2003); *s(u/i)t (STEDT)

For the connection of Chinese 刷 to this root, see Luce (1981)[1] and Bodt (2024).[2] It is unclear why Schuessler and STEDT relate Chinese 恤 (xù) or 卹 (xù) to this root; it does not make any semantic sense to do so.

Original sr- is required by the Chinese and Jingpho forms.

Verb

*srəwt

  1. to rub, wipe

Descendants

  • Chinese: 刷 (OC *[s]r[o]t (B-S)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: ཤུད (shud, “to rub, grind, scrape”)
  • Naic
  • Proto-Lolo-Burmese: *sutᴴ
  • Jingpho-Asakian
    • Jingpho: katsut (“to wipe”)
  • Proto-Kuki-Chin: *thut
  • Proto-Tangkhulic: *ʃut
    • Tangkhul Naga: kashut
  • Proto-Tani: *tit
  • Manipuri: ꯁꯤꯠ (sit, “to sweep”)
  • Kho-Bwa
    • Proto-Western Kho-Bwa: *u

References

  1. ^ Luce, G. H. (1981), “-UT Finals (22. to Wipe)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 51
  2. ^ Bodt, Timotheus A. (2024), Proto-Western Kho-Bwa: Reconstructing a community’s past through language (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series; 64)‎[1], Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 229
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