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Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/sjej-s
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Etymology
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *syɨs (Coblin, 1986)
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *syey-s (Matisoff, STEDT); *syey (Benedict, 1972; Chou, 1972; LaPolla, 1987; Weidert, 1987); *syey (*C) (Coblin, 1986)
Verb
*sjej-s
- to know
Descendants
- Old Chinese: 悉 /*sit/ (B-S), /*sid/ (ZS) ("all, completely; detailed; to know, to understand")
- Middle Chinese: 悉 /siɪt/
→ Japanese: 悉 (しつ, shitsu)
Korean: 실 (悉, sil)
Vietnamese: tất (悉)
- Modern Mandarin
- Beijing: 悉 (xī), /ɕi⁵⁵/)
- Cantonese
- Guangzhou: 悉 /ɕɪk̚⁵/
- Wu
- Shanghai: 悉 /ɕiɪ̆ʔ⁵⁵/
- Modern Mandarin
- Kamarupan
- Kuki-Chin: *thay-I, thayʔ-II (“know, able, hear”) (VanBik, 2009)
- Central Chin
- Lushai [Mizo]: thei (“can, may; able, capable”)
- Central Chin
- Kuki-Chin: *thay-I, thayʔ-II (“know, able, hear”) (VanBik, 2009)
- Himalayish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Bodic
- Tibetan
- Written Tibetan: ཤེས་པ (shes pa, “to know, to understand, to cognise, to realise, to be aware”)
- Tibetan
- Bodic
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Jingpho-Asakian
- Jingpho
- Jingpho [Kachin]: shiga (“news”)
- Jingpho
- Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
- Lolo-Burmese: *šey²/³ (Matisoff, 2003)
- Burmish
- Written Burmese: သိ (si., “to know, to be acquainted with”)
- Loloish: *si² (Bradley, 1979)
- Northern Loloish
- Yi (Liangshan): ꌥ (syp, “to know, understand, recognise, be familiar with”), ꌥ (syx, “to know, meet, get to know”)
- Central Loloish
- Lisu (Southern): ꓢꓷꓸ (sɤ́, “to know, recognise”), also ꓢꓲꓸ (sɨ́)
- Northern Loloish
- Burmish
- Lolo-Burmese: *šey²/³ (Matisoff, 2003)
- Karenic:
- Sgaw: သ့ၣ်ညါ (sèñā, “to know”)
See also
- *ken ~ m-kjen (“to see, to know”)