Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/m-liːt

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: *m-liːt (Matisoff, STEDT); *(m-)liːt (Weidert, 1987; Chou, 1972; Benedict, 1972)

Noun

*m-liːt

1. water leech, horseleech

Descendants

• Old Chinese: 蛭 (*tˁit, tit (B-S; unlisted, theoretical), *tiːg, tig, tjig (ZS), “water leech”)

  < Proto-Chinese: /*m-l̥it/ (?) (AS)

  • Middle Chinese: 蛭 (zhì) /tet, ʈɣiɪt, t͡ɕiɪt/
    • Modern Mandarin
      • Beijing: 蛭 (zhì) (zhì, /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹/)
• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Lepcha: ᰞᰬᰳᰓᰪ (hlet-bu) ("leech")
• Proto-Karen: *k/s-lejᴬ (Luangthongkum, 2013)
  • S'gaw Karen: သလံၤ (tha leē) ~ ကလံၤ (ka leē) ~ တလံၤ (ta leē, “(water) leech”)

See also

• *k-r-pʷat (“leech”)