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Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s-r(j)ik

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: *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
Louse.

*s-r(j)ik

  1. louse

Descendants
  • Old Chinese: 蝨／虱 (*srit (B-S), *srig (ZS), “louse”)
    • Middle Chinese: 蝨／虱 (ʃɪt)
      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: 蝨／虱 (shī), /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/)
      • Cantonese
        • Guangzhou: 蝨／虱 (shī) /sɐt̚⁵/
  • Kamarupan
    • Proto-Kuki-Chin: *hrik (VanBik, 2009)
      • Central Chin
        • Mizo: hrik (“louse”)
      • Khomic
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Written Tibetan: ཤིག (shig, “louse”)
  • Jingpho-Asakian
    • Jingpho: shakrat (“louse”) (per Schuessler, 2007), tsi (“louse”) (per STEDT)

See also
  • *s(j)ar (“louse”)
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