Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/srəwk

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: *sruk (Coblin, 1986)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *s(y)awk (STEDT)

The reconstruction of the diphthong *əw is due to Hill (2019, p. 273).

Verb

*srəwk

  1. to drink
  2. to suck

Descendants

  • Chinese: 欶 (OC *sˤrok (Hill 2019), MC *sraewk, “to inhale, suck in”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Naic
    • Proto-Naish: *sru (“to drink”)
      • Laze: [Term?] (/⁠ʂv˩⁠/)
  • Lolo-Burmese
  • Chepangic
    • Chepang: स्‍युङःसा (“to suck out”)

See also

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