< Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s-diːk
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Etymology
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *s-diːk (Matisoff, STEDT); *(s-)diːk (Benedict, 1972)
Noun
*s-diːk
- scorpion
- crab, shrimp
Descendants
- Himalayish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Bodic
- Tibetan
- Written Tibetan: སྡིག་པ (sdig pa, “scorpion”), སྡིག་སྲིན (sdig srin, “crab”)
- Tibetan
- Bodic
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Kuki-Chin
- Central Chin
- Lushai [Mizo]: tit (“scorpion”)
- Central Chin
- Tangut-Qiang
- Northern Tangut
- Tangut: 𘝠 (thjɨ, /*tʰʲʏ³⁵/, “scorpion”)
- Northern Tangut
See also
- *d-k(j)aːj (“crab”)