Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/krəp

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: *khljəp (Coblin, 1986)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *krap (Matisoff, STEDT; Benedict, 1972; Coblin, 1986; Weidert, 1987; Michailovsky, 1991); *krɑp (Chou, 1972)

Verb

*krəp

  1. to weep

Descendants

  • Chinese: 泣 (OC /*k-r̥əp/ (B-S), /*kʰrɯb/ (ZS), “to weep”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
      • Tamangic
        *ᴬkra, ᴮkraː (“cry, weep”) (Mazaudon, 1994)
    • Kiranti: /*khrap/ ("weep") (Michailovsky, 1991)
  • Proto-Kuki-Chin: *krap-I, kraʔ-II (“weep, cry”) (VanBik, 2009)
    • Central Chin
      • Mizo: ṭap, ṭah (“to cry, weep, lament”)
  • Jingpho-Asakian
    • Jingpho: hkrap (“to weep, cry”)
  • Proto-Northern Naga: *krəp (“weep”) (French, 1983)
  • Proto-Tangkhulic: *cap (“weep”) (Mortensen, 2012)
  • Proto-Tani: *krap (“weep”) (Sun, 1993)

See also

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