Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/srja(t)

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: *Crjat (Schuessler, 2007)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman:
      • *hryat (Schuessler, 2007)
      • *g-s-y(w)at (STEDT)

The expected -t is missing in Chinese. See Jacques (2017) for the Tibetan connection.

Verb

*srja(t)

  1. to comb, brush

Descendants

  • Chinese: 梳 (OC *sra (B-S)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: ཤད (shad, “to comb”)
  • Proto-Kuki-Chin: *hriat
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