Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/qik

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: *ʔik (Coblin, 1986); *qik (Hill, 2019)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman:
      • *ik (Benedict, 1972)
      • *ʔik (Matisoff, 2003; STEDT)

Hill assigns Tibetan འཁྱིག ('khyig, “to bind; suffocate”) here while STEDT assigns it to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *(g/k)(y)i(t/k) (“to tie, bind”). The Tibetan word may be a conflation of the two verbs.

Verb

*qik

  1. to squeeze
  2. to strangle, suffocate

Descendants

  • Chinese: 縊 / 缢 (OC *qˤ[i]k-s (B-S)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: འཁྱིག ('khyig, “to bind; suffocate”)
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
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