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Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/tsik

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

Etymology
  • Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tsik (Coblin, 1986)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *tsik (Matisoff, STEDT; Benedict, 1972; Coblin, 1986; Chou, 1972)

Noun

*tsik

  1. joint, section

Descendants
  • Old Chinese: 節／节 (*tsˁik ("B-S"), *ʔsiːg (ZS), “joint, knot, mode, section; period, festival”)
    • Middle Chinese: 節／节 (jié) /tset/

      → Japanese: 節 (せつ, ​setsu)
      Korean: 절 (節, jeol)
      Vietnamese: tiết (節)

      → Vietnamese: tết (“festival”), Tết (“Vietnamese New Year”)

      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: 節／节 (jié) (jié, /t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/)
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Written Tibetan: ཚིགས (tshigs, “joint, junction, link; verse line”)
  • Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
    • Lolo-Burmese
      *ʔdzik ⪤ *ʔdzak (“joint”) (Matisoff, 1972); *ʔ-dzikᴸ (Matisoff, 2003)
      • Burmish
        • Burmese: ဆစ် (hcac, “to chop, to cut off; joint”) (> အဆစ် (a.hcac, “joint, node”))
      • Loloish
        *C-dzikᴸ (Bradley, 1979)
        • Northern Loloish
          • Yi (Liangshan): ꊨ (zyt, “joint, section; to fasten or join pieces together”)
        • Central Loloish
          • Lisu (Southern): ꓝꓲꓸ (tsí, “joint, joist, house stud; time, season”)

See also
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