Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/r-dzas

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: ?
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *r-dzas (Matisoff, STEDT)

This root is due to Gong (2000).

Noun

*r-dzas

thing

Descendants

Old Chinese: 事 /*[m-s-]rəʔ-s/ ("B-S"), /*zrɯs/ (ZS) ("thing")
- Middle Chinese: 事 (MC d͡ʒɨ^H)

- → Japanese: 事 (じ, ji)
  Korean: 사 (事, sa)
  Vietnamese: sự (事)
  - Mandarin:
    - Beijing: 事 (shì, /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/)
  - Cantonese:
    - Guangzhou: 事 (si⁶, /siː²²/)
Himalayish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
  - Bodic
    - Tibetan
      - Tibetan: རྫས (rdzas, “thing, object, matter”)
Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
- Lolo-Burmese
  - Burmish
    - Burmese: စာ (ca, “thing”)