Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/sat

• Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *sriat (Coblin, 1986)
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *g/b-sat (Matisoff, STEDT); *g-sat (LaPolla, 1987; Benedict, 1972); *g-sɑ̂t (Chou, 1972)

Compare Proto-Monic *k-r-cət ("to kill") (Mon ဃာစိုတ် (həcɒt, “to kill”)), Proto-Mon-Khmer *gət ~ gut (“to kill”) (Khmer គុត (kut, “to kill, to slay”)) ~ Vietnamese giết (“to kill”).

< Proto-Mon-Khmer *kc(ə)t (“to die”) (Proto-Monic *kcət, Vietnamese chết).

*sat

1. to kill

   Synonym: *kum

2. to hit, to strike

• Chinese: 殺 / 杀 (OC /*s‹r›at/ (B-S), /*sreːd/ (ZS), “to kill”), 殺 / 杀 (OC /*s‹r›at-s/ (B-S), /*sreːds/ (ZS), “to diminish”) (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Bodish: *(g)sot (see there for further descendants)
• rGyalrongic
  • Japhug: sat
  • Tangut: 𗜍 (*sja¹)
• Proto-Lolo-Burmese: *C-sat (“to kill”)
  • Burmish
    • Achang: sat
    • Burmese: သတ် (sat, “to kill; to quench (fire); to fight, to struggle”)
  • Loloish
    • Northern Loloish
      • Yi (Liangshan): ꌉ (sit, “to kill; to stab; to fight a war”)
    • Central Loloish
      • Lisu: ꓢꓰꓼ (sè̱, “to kill”)
• Proto-Kuki-Chin: *that, *thaʔ (“to kill”)
  • Central Chin
    • Mizo: that, thah (“to kill”)
• Boro-Garo
  • Garo: so·ota
• Jingpho-Asakian
  • Jingpho: sat (“to kill”)
• Karbi: that

• *sij (“to die”)