Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/tet ~ tjat

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: *tet ~ *tjat (Schuessler, 2007)
  • Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *tsyat (Matisoff, STEDT; Benedict, 1972); *tśât (Chou, 1972)

*tet ~ tjat

1. to cut off, to chop
2. to break
3. to bend

• Old Chinese: 折 /*tet/ ("B-S"), /*ʔljed/ (ZS) ("to bend, to break (v.t.); to defeat; to decay, to die; to detract; to fold"); /*ɴ-tet/ ("B-S"), /*ɦljed/ (ZS) ("to bend (v.i.)")
  • Middle Chinese: 折 (t͡ɕiᴇt, d͡ʑiᴇt), 摺／折 (t͡ɕiᴇp, “to fold”), 褶 (“crease, wrinkle”)

5=jeol

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→ Japanese: 折 (せつ, ​setsu)
Korean: 절 (折, jeol)
Vietnamese: chiết (折)

• • • Modern Mandarin
      • Beijing: 折 (zhé, /ʈ͡ʂɤ³⁵/, “to break (sth.)”); 折 (shé, /ʂɤ³⁵/, “to snap, to break (by itself)”), 摺／折 (zhé, /ʈ͡ʂɤ³⁵/, “to fold”), 褶 (zhě, /ʈ͡ʂɤ²¹⁴/, “crease, wrinkle”)
• Kamarupan
  • Proto-Kuki-Chin: *tsat (“to break, to snap”) (VanBik, 2009)
    • Central Chin
      • Lushai : chat (“to break, to snap; asunder, apart”)
• Himalayish
  • Tibeto-Kanauri
    • Bodic
      • Tibetan
        • Written Tibetan:

          གཅོད་པ (gcod pa, “to sever, to chop off, to cut off, to fell”) (pf. བཅད (bcad), fut. གཅད (gcad), imp. ཆོད (chod))

          འཆད་པ ('chad pa, “to be cut; to cease, to end, to stop; to decay”) (pf. འཆད ('chad), fut. ཆད (chad), imp. ཆད (chad))

• Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
  • Lolo-Burmese: *tsat, *{C}-tsat (“to break (in two)”) (Matisoff, 1972)
    • Burmish
      • Written Burmese: ဆတ် (hcat, “brittle”)