Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/qrak

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

Reconstruction

  • Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *krak (STEDT)

Bodt (2024) compares Proto-Western Kho-Bwa *qrek with Tibetan ཁྲག (khrag, “blood”) and 奭 (OC *[qʰ](r)Ak, *[qʰ](r)ək (B-S), “red”).[1] STEDT remarks that it is unclear if that Chinese word is identical to 赤 (chì).

Root

*qrak

  1. red
  2. blood

Descendants

  • Chinese: 赤 (OC *[t-qʰ](r)Ak, “red”), 赫 (OC *qʰˤrak, “bright red”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish: *kʰrak
  • Lolo-Burmese
    • Burmish
      • >? Burmese: ရှက် (hrak) (placed here by Hill 2019; it is much more likely to actually come from *srək)
  • Kho-Bwa
    • Proto-Western Kho-Bwa: *a-qrek (“red”)

References

  1. ^ Bodt, Timotheus A. (2024), Proto-Western Kho-Bwa: Reconstructing a community’s past through language (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series; 64)‎[1], Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 280
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