< Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/krəj
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Etymology
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *krəj (Matisoff, STEDT; Chou, 1972); *krij (Benedict, 1972; LaPolla, 1972)
Noun
*krəj
- foot, leg
- footstool, seat, chair
Descendants
- Old Chinese: 几 /*C.krəjʔ/ (B-S), /*krilʔ/ (ZS) ("seat")
- Middle Chinese: 几 (kijX)
→ Japanese: 几 (き, ki)
Korean: 궤 (几, gwe)
Vietnamese: kỉ
- Modern Mandarin
- Beijing: 几 ("seat") (jī, /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/)
- Cantonese
- Guangzhou: 几 ("seat") /kei̯⁵⁵/
- Himalayish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Bodic
- Written Tibetan: ཁྲི (khri, “foot”)
- Modern Tibetan (Lhasa): /ʈ͡ʂʰi˥˥/
- Written Tibetan: ཁྲི (khri, “foot”)
- Bodic
- Mahakiranti
- Kiranti
- Western Kiranti
- Thulung: /kʰə-laʔ/ ("foot")
- Western Kiranti
- Kiranti
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Tangut-Qiang
- Northern Tangut
- Tangut: 𗭒 (khjɨ, /*kʰʲʏ⁵⁵/, “foot”)
- Qiangic
- Qiang (Taoping): /d͡ʑi⁵⁵/
- Pumi (Qinghua): ʈʂʰə⁵⁵
- Northern Tangut
- Lolo-Burmese
- Burmish
- Written Burmese: ခြေ (hkre, “foot, leg”)
- Loloish: *kre¹ (“foot”) (Bradley, 1979)
- Central Loloish
- Lahu: ɔ̀-khɨ (“foot”), khɨ-šɛ (“foot, leg”)
- Central Loloish
- Naxi: /kʰɯ³³/ ("foot")
- Burmish
See also
- *r-kja-ŋ (“foot”)
- *la ~ ja (“leg, foot”)
- *m-pa (“foot”)
- *bwal (“leg, foot, hoof”)