Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/rV-mi(k)

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: *r-mjwiəd (Coblin, 1986)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *r/s-mwəy (Matisoff, STEDT); *(s-)mwəy, *(r-)mwəy, *mwiy (Weidert, 1987); *rmwiy (*C) (?) (Coblin, 1986); *(r-)mwəy ~ (s-)mwəy (Chou, 1972); *mwiy (Benedict, 1972)

The s- alternative pre-initial and -w- medial seem motivated by a desire to link Jingpho shamwi (“to be sleepy”) and Burmese မွေ့ (mwe., “to enjoy”) to this verb. But the Burmese term is fraught with being distant semantically and a -w- medial is incompatible with the Karenic forms, so the Burmese and Jingpho comparanda will be excluded here.

The *(-k) is reconstructed here due to the -t final in Old Chinese.

Verb

*rV-mi(k)

  1. to sleep
  2. to dream

Descendants

  • Old Chinese: 寐 (mèi) /*mit-s/ (B-S), /*mids/ (ZS) ("to sleep; a sound sleep")
    • Middle Chinese: 寐 (miɪH)
      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: 寐 (mèi) (mèi, /meɪ̯⁵¹/)
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Tibetan: རྨི་བ (rmi ba, “to dream”) (pf. རྨིས (rmis)), རྨི་ལམ (rmi lam, “dream”)
  • Proto-Karen: *hmejᴬ
  • Proto-Tani: *mi (“sleepy”)

See also

  • *m-njal ~ s-njal (“to sleep, to lie down; sleepy”)
  • *g-(d)zim ~ g-(d)zum (“to sleep”)
  • *s-jip ~ s-jup (“to sleep, to hide”)
  • *(s/r)-ma(ŋ/k) (“to dream”)
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