Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/Pi(k)

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:
      • *biy (Benedict, 1972; Weidert, 1987; LaPolla, 1987)
      • *s-bəy-n/k (Matisoff, 2003; STEDT)

In this reconstruction, *P stands for an uncertain labial sound. It appears as a *b in most Sino-Tibetan languages, but Karenic has a voiceless aspirated stop, Chinese has a voiceless unaspirated stop, and rGyalrongic has aberrant reflexes ranging from prenasalized voiced stop to simple /m/ in Horpa (including Tangut), which Lai indexes with a voiceless nasal.

The *ia in Kuki-Chin is also irregular.

Verb

*Pi(k)

  1. to give

Descendants

  • Chinese: 畀 (OC *pi[t]-s (B-S)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Bodish: *bi
  • rGyalrongic
    • West rGyalrongic
      • Horpa
        • Geshiza: mə
        • Tangut: 𘈈 (*mji¹)
      • Khroskyabs: bə̂ (“to give food”)
    • East rGyalrongic
  • Proto-Lolo-Burmese: *bəy²
    • Burmish
    • Proto-Loloish: *be²
  • Nungish
  • Proto-Kuki-Chin: *pia
  • Proto-Tani: *bi
  • Karbi: pi
  • Chepangic
    • Chepang: बयःसा
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