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Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Etymology
- Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *s-twak (STEDT)
This root is well-attested in Lolo-Burmese and other branches of the family however in some languages it has been specialized to refer to animal births. The -t final is particular to Chinese, but this could well be a secondary development from an original velar after a front vowel. This term may have been conflated with a descendant from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-(t/d)u (“nephew; descendant”) – whence the Burmese တူ (tu, “nephew”) – a sense no longer productive but was mentioned in the glossary book Erya, c. 2nd century BCE.
Noun
*s-twak
- go out
- leave
- emerge
Descendants
- Old Chinese: 出 (OC *kʰljuds, *kʰljud) ("go out; leave")
- Modern Mandarin
- Beijing: 出 (chū) ("go out; leave") (chū)
- Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
- Lolo-Burmese
- Burmish
- Burmese: ထွက် (htwak, “go out; leave”)