Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/sjərl

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: *bsil (Coblin, 1986); *sil (Schuessler, 2007)
    • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: **m/b-s(y)il ⪤ *m/b-syal (Matisoff, 2003; STEDT)

Labial pre-initials on this verb are also frequent in Kuki-Chin.

The Jingpho terms are also connected to the Kuki-Chin term by DeLancey (2023).[1]

Verb

*sjərl

  1. to wash

Descendants

  • Chinese: 洗 (OC *[s]ˤərʔ (B-S)) (see there for further descendants)
  • Bodish
    • Tibetic
      • Tibetan: བསིལ (bsil), གཤལ (gshal)
  • Jingpho-Asakian
  • Proto-Kuki-Chin: *sil
    • Northeastern
      • Tedim Chin: sil
    • Central
    • Southern
      • Nga La: silh

References

  1. ^ DeLancey, Scott (2022), “Lexical Comparisons between Proto-Kuki-Chin and Jinghpaw: Evidence for a Central Branch of Trans-Himalayan”, in Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society‎[1], volume 15, number 1, →ISSN, pages 70-92
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