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Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s-r(j)a-j/s/t
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Etymology
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *s-r(y)a-y/s/t (Matisoff, STEDT), *rya-t (Benedict, 1972; LaPolla, 1987; Michailovsky, 1991); *ryɑ-t (Chou, 1972)
Verb
*s-r(j)a-j/s/t
- to laugh
Descendants
- Old Chinese: 辴 /*tʰrər/ (B-S), /*tʰɯl/ (ZS) ("to laugh"); 嘕 /*qʰran/ (ZS) ("a way of laughing")
- Middle Chinese: 辴 (thrij); 嘕 (hiᴇn)
- Himalayish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Bodic
- Tibetan
- Written Tibetan: བཞད་པ (bzhad pa, “to laugh, smile”), གཞའ་བ (gzha' ba, “to joke, play”), གཞས (gzhas, “joke, play, song”)
- Tibetan
- Bodic
- Kiranti
- /*rit-/ ("laugh") (Michailovsky, 1991)
- Tibeto-Kanauri
- Tangut-Qiang
- rGyalrongic
- Japhug: (nɤ)re
- Situ: (na)ri
- Tshobdun: rɐ
- rGyalrongic
- Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
- Lolo-Burmese
- /*ray¹/ ("laugh") (Matisoff, 2003)
- Burmish
- Written Burmese: ရယ် (rai, “to laugh”)
- Lhaovo: qi (“to laugh”) (IPA: [ɣì])
- Loloish
- /*ray¹/ ("laugh") (Bradley, 1979)
- Northern Loloish
- Yi (Liangshan): ꒉ (yy, “to laugh, smile”)
- Central Loloish
- Lisu (Southern): ꓪꓽ ꓫꓱꓻ (wɑ̀ ʃø, “to laugh”)
- Lolo-Burmese
See also
- *m-nwi(j)-k (“to laugh”)
- *s(j)aw (“to laugh”)
- *rəj (“water”)