Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/tset

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: *tet ~ *tjat (Schuessler, 2007)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *tsyat (Matisoff, STEDT; Benedict, 1972); *tśât (Chou, 1972)

All languages except Old Chinese reflect an affricate initial. The deaffrication of the initial in Chinese could be due to assimilation to the coda.

Verb

*tset

  1. to cut off, to chop
  2. to break
  3. to bend

Descendants

  • Old Chinese: 折 /*tet/ ("B-S"), /*ʔljed/ (ZS) ("to bend, to break (v.t.); to defeat; to decay, to die; to detract; to fold"); /*ɴ-tet/ ("B-S"), /*ɦljed/ (ZS) ("to bend (v.i.)")
    • Middle Chinese: 折 (t͡ɕiᴇt, d͡ʑiᴇt), 摺 / 折 (t͡ɕiᴇp, “to fold”), 褶 (“crease, wrinkle”)

      → Japanese: 折 (せつ, ​setsu)
      Korean: 절 (折, jeol)
      Vietnamese: chiết (折)

      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: 折 (zhé, /ʈ͡ʂɤ³⁵/, “to break (sth.)”); 折 (shé, /ʂɤ³⁵/, “to snap, to break (by itself)”), 摺 / 折 (zhé, /ʈ͡ʂɤ³⁵/, “to fold”), 褶 (zhě, /ʈ͡ʂɤ²¹⁴/, “crease, wrinkle”)
  • Kamarupan
    • Proto-Kuki-Chin: *tsat (“to break, to snap”) (VanBik, 2009)
      • Central Chin
        • Mizo: chat (“to break, to snap; asunder, apart”)
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Written Tibetan:
            གཅོད་པ (gcod pa, “to sever, to chop off, to cut off, to fell”) (pf. བཅད (bcad), fut. གཅད (gcad), imp. ཆོད (chod))
            འཆད་པ ('chad pa, “to be cut; to cease, to end, to stop; to decay”) (pf. འཆད ('chad), fut. ཆད (chad), imp. ཆད (chad))
  • Lolo-Burmese: *tsat, *{C}-tsat (“to break (in two)”) (Matisoff, 1972)
    • Burmish
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