Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/srik

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: *sryik (Coblin, 1986)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *s-r(y)ik (Matisoff, STEDT); *s-rik (Benedict, 1972; Weidert, 1987); *s-rik = *śrik (Chou, 1972; LaPolla, 1987), *śrik (Coblin, 1986)

Noun

*srik

  1. louse

Descendants

  • Chinese:  / (OC *srit (B-S), *srig (ZS), louse) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Bodish: *sik (see there for further descendants)
  • Tshangla: ཤིང (shing)
  • Proto-Kuki-Chin: *hrik (VanBik, 2009)
    • Central Chin
      • Mizo: hrik (louse)
    • Khomic
  • Jingpho-Asakian
    • Jingpho: tsi (/⁠tsíʔ⁠/)
  • Karbi: rek
  • Chepangic
    • Chepang: स्रय्‍क्

See also

  • *s(j)ar (louse)