shitsük

Ao

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kV-rtsik.

Noun

shitsük

  1. (Chungli) some kind of feline animal (the Clarks gloss this as "tiger cat")

Further reading

  • Bruhn, Daniel (2010), “Unearthing the Roots: Ao and Proto-Tibeto-Burman — The Rimes”, in UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report‎[1], volume 6, number 6, University of California, Berkeley, →DOI, page 234
  • Clark, Mary M. (1893), Ao Naga grammar with illustrative phrases and vocabulary, Molung: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, page 170
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