Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/(s/z)a-j

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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: *sa-y ⪤ za-y (Matisoff, STEDT); *z(l)a-y (Matisoff, 2003); *sa (Matisoff, 2003)

The palatal coda is perhaps a diminutive suffix (Matisoff, 1995).

Proto-Tai *zwɯəjᴬ (sand), whence Thai ทราย (saai, sand), Lao ຊາຍ (sāi, sand) and Zhuang saiz (sand), is a loan either from Old Chinese (OC *sraːl, *sraːls, “sand”) or from this Proto-Sino-Tibetan root itself.

Noun

Dunes of the Taklamakan desert.

*z)a-j

  1. earth, sand, soil

Descendants

  • Old Chinese: /*sˤraj/ (B-S), /*sraːl, sraːls/ (ZS) ("sand")

    Thai: ทราย ("sand")
    Lao: ຊາຍ ("sand")

    • Middle Chinese: sræ (/ʃˠa/) ("sand")
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Japanese:  (しゃ, ​sha)
Korean:  (, sa)
Vietnamese: sa, xa ()

      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: (shā, /ʂa̠⁵⁵/, sand)
      • Yue
        • Cantonese: (/sɑː⁵⁵/, sand)
    • Min Nan
      • Xiamen: (/sa⁴⁴/, sand)
  • Tangkhulic
    • Tangkhul Naga: si (sand)
  • Sal
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Bodic
        • Tibetan
          • Written: (sa, sand, earth, ground)
  • Tangut-Qiang
    • Northen Tangut
      • Tangut: 𗉺 (*śia¹, sand) (Possibly a loan from Chinese; often used for its phonetic value, e.g. 𗉺𗐺 (*śia¹ mẽ¹, shaman)[1])
  • Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
    • Lolo-Burmese:
      *say² ("sand")
      • Burmish
        • Written: သဲ (sai:, sand)
      • Loloish
        • Central Loloish
  • Proto-Kuki-Chin:

Notes

  1. ^
    • Sofronov, Mikhail Viktorovich (1968) Грамматика тангутского языка [Grammatika tangutskovo jazyka, Grammar of the Tangut Language] (in Russian), character 4161

See also