Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/g/b-sat

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Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/g/b-sat

This Proto-Sino-Tibetan entry contains reconstructed words 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: *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).

Verb

*g/b-sat

1. to kill
2. to hit, to strike

Descendants

• Old Chinese: 殺 (*s‹r›at (B-S); *sreːd (ZS), “to kill”); 殺 (*s‹r›at-s (B-S); *sreːds (ZS), “to diminish”)
  • Middle Chinese: 殺 (ʃɣɛt, ʃɣɛiH), informally also: 煞 /ʃɣɛt/ ("to kill, to stop; very, extremely; evil spirit")

• • →   Japanese:  殺 (さつ, ​satsu)
          Korean:  살 (殺, sal)
          Vietnamese:  sát (殺)

• • • Modern Mandarin
      • Beijing: 殺 (shā, /ʂa⁵⁵/), (shài, /ʂaɪ̯⁵¹/), 煞 (shà, /ʂa⁵¹/)
    • Cantonese
      • Guangzhou: 殺 /sɑːt̚³, sɑːi³³/
    • Wu
      • Shanghai: 殺 (sᴀʔ⁵⁵)
  • Min
    • Min Nan
      • Taiwan: 殺 /sat̚³/
• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Bodic
      • Tibetan
        • Written Tibetan: གསོད་པ (gsod pa, “to kill, to slaughter, to murder; to extinguish, to eliminate, to eradicate, to annihilate”) (pf. བསད (bsad))
• Tangut-Qiang
  • rGyalrongic
    • Japhug: sat
• Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
      • 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”)

See also

• *gum ~ kum (“to die, to kill”)
• *səj (“to die”)