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Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/m-liːt

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: *m-liːt (Matisoff, STEDT); *(m-)liːt (Weidert, 1987; Chou, 1972; Benedict, 1972)

Noun

*m-liːt

  1. water leech, horseleech

Descendants
  • Old Chinese: 蛭 (*tˁit, tit (B-S; unlisted, theoretical), *tiːg, tig, tjig (ZS), “water leech”)
    < Proto-Chinese: /*m-l̥it/ (?) (AS)
    • Middle Chinese: 蛭 (zhì) /tet, ʈɣiɪt, t͡ɕiɪt/
      • Modern Mandarin
        • Beijing: 蛭 (zhì) (zhì, /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹/)
  • Himalayish
    • Tibeto-Kanauri
      • Lepcha: ᰞᰬᰳᰓᰪ (hlet-bu) ("leech")
  • Proto-Karen: *k/s-lejᴬ (Luangthongkum, 2013)

See also
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