Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/pij

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: *pyid (Coblin, 1986)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman:
      • *piy (Benedict, 1972; LaPolla, 1987)
      • *pəy (Chou, 1972)
      • *ʔ-pəy (Matisoff, 2003; STEDT)

Noun

*pij

  1. grandmother

Descendants

  • Chinese: 妣 (OC *pijʔ-s (B-S), “deceased mother”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: ཨ་ཕྱི (a phyi)
  • rGyalrongic
    • East rGyalrongic
      • Japhug: tɤ-wi
      • Situ: ta-wî (Brag-bar and Cogtse)
  • Bodo-Garo
  • Proto-Kuki-Chin: *pii
    • Central
  • Karbi: phi
  • Proto-Tangkhulic: *bɨ
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