< Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s-hjwəj-t
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Etymology
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *shwiʔ (Coblin, 1986)
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *s-hywəy-t (Matisoff, STEDT); *s-hwiy (Benedict, 1972); *(s-)h(y)wə[ː]y (French, 1983); *s-hwiy(*B) (Coblin, 1986)
This word now means "marrow" in some Tibeto-Burman languages. Chinese 髓 (suĭ < OC *s-lojʔ, "marrow") has also been (possibly incorrectly) assigned as a reflex of this root.
Noun
*s-hjwəj-t
- blood
Descendants
- Old Chinese: 血 (*qʰʷiːg (ZS), *m̥ˁik (B-S), “blood”)
- Middle Chinese: 血 /hwet/
- Modern Mandarin
- Beijing: 血 ("blood") (literary: xuè, /ɕɥ̯œ⁵¹/; colloquial: xiě, /ɕi̯ɛ²¹³/)
- Modern Mandarin
- Middle Chinese: 血 /hwet/
- Himalayish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Bodic
- Tibetan
- Written Tibetan: ཡི་དམ (yi dam, “vow, oath, promise”), ཡིད (yid, “soul, mind”)
- Tibetan
- Lepcha: ᰟᰧ (vi, “blood”)
- Bodic
- Newar
- Newar (Dolakhali): हि (hi, “blood”)
- Newar (Kathmandu): हि (hi, “blood”)
- Mahakiranti
- Kiranti
- Eastern Kiranti = Rai
- Limbu: ᤔᤠ᤺ᤰᤜᤡ (mākhi, “blood”)
- Eastern Kiranti = Rai
- Kiranti
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Tangut-Qiang
- Northern Tangut
- Tangut: 𗊴 (sjij, /*sʲɪj⁵⁵/, “blood”)
- Northern Tangut
- Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
- Lolo-Burmese
- Burmish
- Burmese: သွေး (swe:, “blood, disposition, spirit”)
- Loloish
- /*swe²/ (Bradley, 1979; Weidert, 1987)
- Northern Loloish
- Yi (Liangshan): ꌦ (sy, “blood”)
- Burmish
- Lolo-Burmese
- Karen: *swiᴮ (Luangthongkum, 2013)
- Sgaw: သွံၣ် (swì, “blood”)
See also
- *krak (“blood”)