Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/r-dzas

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: *r-dzas (Matisoff, STEDT)

This root is due to Gong (2000).

Noun

*r-dzas

  1. thing

Descendants

  • Old Chinese: 事 /*[m-s-]rəʔ-s/ ("B-S"), /*zrɯs/ (ZS) ("thing")
    • Middle Chinese: 事 (MC dzriH)

      → Japanese: 事 (じ, ​ji)
      Korean: 사 (事, sa)
      Vietnamese: sự (事)

      • Mandarin:
        • Beijing: 事 (shì, /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/)
      • Cantonese:
        • Guangzhou: 事 (si6, /siː²²/)
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Tibetan: རྫས (rdzas, “thing, object, matter”)
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
      • Burmese: စာ (ca, “thing”)
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