Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/r-dzas

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: *r-dzas (Matisoff, STEDT)

This root is due to Gong (2000).

Noun

*r-dzas

1. thing

Descendants

• Old Chinese: 事 /*[m-s-]rəʔ-s/ ("B-S"), /*zrɯs/ (ZS) ("thing")
  • Middle Chinese: 事 (MC dzriH)

**:

→ Japanese: 事 (じ, ​ji)
Korean: 사 (事, sa)
Vietnamese: sự (事)

• • • Mandarin:
      • Beijing: 事 (shì, /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/)
    • Cantonese:
      • Guangzhou: 事 (si⁶, /siː²²/)
• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Bodic
      • Tibetan
        • Tibetan: རྫས (rdzas, “thing, object, matter”)
• Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
      • Burmese: စာ (ca, “thing”)