Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/kjit

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:
      • *kik (Benedict, 1972; LaPolla, 1987)
      • *g(y)it/k ⪤ k(y)it/k (Matisoff, 2003)
      • *(g/k)(y)i(t/k) (STEDT)

Tibetan འཁྱིག ('khyig, “to bind, strangle”) is traditionally assigned here (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT), but Hill (2019) instead assigns it to *qik (“to squeeze, strangle”) instead. Hill's solution is adopted here since Jingpho and Kuki-Chin display a rhyme -it incompatible with the Tibetan.

Verb

*kjit

  1. to tie, bind

Descendants

  • Chinese: 結 / 结 (OC *kˤi[t] (B-S)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Kuki-Chin: *khit
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
    • Loloish
      • Central Loloish
        • Lahu: tsuh˰
  • Jingpho-Asakian
    • Jingpho: gyit
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