< Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan < r

Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/r/s-mwəj

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: *r-mjwiəd (Coblin, 1986)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *r/s-mwəy (Matisoff, STEDT); *(s-)mwəy, *(r-)mwəy, *mwiy (Weidert, 1987); *rmwiy (*C) (?) (Coblin, 1986); *(r-)mwəy ~ (s-)mwəy (Chou, 1972); *mwiy (Benedict, 1972)

Verb

*s-mwəj

  1. to sleep
  2. to dream

Descendants
  • Old Chinese: 寐 (mèi) /*mit-s/ (B-S), /*mids/ (ZS) ("to sleep; a sound sleep")
    • Middle Chinese: 寐 (miɪH)
      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: 寐 (mèi) (mèi, /meɪ̯⁵¹/)
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Written Tibetan: རྨི་བ (rmi ba, “to dream”) (pf. རྨིས (rmis)), རྨི་ལམ (rmi lam, “dream”)
  • Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
    • Lolo-Burmese
      • Burmish
        • Written Burmese: မွေ့ (mwe., “to enjoy (sleep)”)
  • Karenic

See also
  • *m-njal ~ s-njal (“to sleep, to lie down; sleepy”)
  • *g-(d)zim ~ g-(d)zum (“to sleep”)
  • *s-jip ~ s-jup (“to sleep, to hide”)
  • *(s/r)-ma(ŋ/k) (“to dream”)
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