Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s-r(j)a-j/s/t

This Proto-Sino-Tibetan entry contains reconstructed terms 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: *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

1. to laugh

Descendants

• Old Chinese: 辴 /*tʰrər/ (B-S), /*tʰɯl/ (ZS) ("to laugh"); 嘕 (xiān) /*qʰran/ (ZS) ("a way of laughing")
  • Middle Chinese: 辴 (thrij); 嘕 (xiān) (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”)
  • Kiranti

    /*rit-/ ("laugh") (Michailovsky, 1991)

• Tangut-Qiang
  • rGyalrongic
    • Japhug: (nɤ)re
    • Situ: (na)ri
    • Tshobdun: rɐ
• 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”)

See also

• *m-nwi(j)-k (“to laugh”)
• *s(j)aw (“to laugh”)
• *rəj (“water”)