Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/kʷak

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: *kwjak (Coblin, 1986); *kʷak (Hill, 2019)

Isolated to Chinese and Tibetan. No Tibeto-Burman lemma is given in STEDT. The initial dorsal stop is of uncertain position; Baxter and Sagart think this word had a uvular initial in Old Chinese, while others believe it had a velar one. This uncertainty does not affect the comparison to Tibetan, since Tibetan merges uvulars with velars.

Verb

*kʷak

  1. to seize, take away

Descendants

  • Chinese: 攫 (OC /*C.qʷ(r)ak/ (B-S), *kwak (Schuessler), *kʷak (Hill)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish:
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