Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/b-ras

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *b-ras (Matisoff, STEDT)

A connection between this root and 🇨🇬 has been proposed (Sagart, 2002; Matisoff, STEDT), compare for instance 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Moreover, 🇨🇬 may be a borrowed from a Sino-Tibetan language. Ferlus (2010) proposes an origin & reconstructs putative root *C.rac, a nominal derivation from the verb *rac "to pull, to tear off, to reap". Still, Sagart (2011) deems Ferlus' supporting evidence for the reconstruction to be "flimsy". Also compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 which might have come from the same Austroasiatic source or cognates.

The most probable Chinese comparanda are and. The second one is sometimes compared with 🇨🇬. Benedict (1975) also relates 🇨🇬 with on the basis of the double meaning of this root (“rice, fruit”), however it's possible that the latter shares a common source with 🇨🇬. Chinese likely comes from 🇨🇬.

According to Schuessler (2007), 🇨🇬 may be a cognate along with 🇨🇬, although Sagart (2002) associates it with 🇨🇬, which possibly comes from 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) rice
 * 2) fruit
 * 3) round object

Descendants

 * (B-S), (ZS) ;   (B-S),  (ZS)


 * Beijing: ;
 * Guangzhou-Hong Kong: ;
 * Min:
 * Coastal Min:
 * Xiamen:
 * Kuki-Chin:
 * (VanBik, 2009)
 * Central Chin
 * Sal
 * Bodo-Garo
 * Bodo:
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written, , ,
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish
 * Written, , ,
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish