Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/tak ~ dak

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tjək (Coblin, 1986)
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *tak ⪤ *dak (Matisoff, STEDT); *dak (Mortensen, 2012); *d-rak, *tak=*trak (LaPolla, 1987); *trak ~ *tak (Weidert, 1987; Benedict, 1972); *trɑk ~ *tɑk (Chou, 1972)

NB: Some Tibeto-Burman languages have a variant (or a different etymon) with *r-initial. Some (e.g. Schuessler, 2007) posit *t- ~ *r- proto-variation in this root, akin to the *r- variant in.

Verb

 * 1) to weave, to plait

Descendants

 * Old Chinese:  (B-S) ("to weave"),  (B-S) ("woven cloth")
 * Middle Chinese:
 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing:
 * Himalayish
 * Tibeto-Kanauri
 * Bodic
 * Tibetan
 * Written
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese: *rak ⪤ *tak/*dak ⪤ *k-rak (LaPolla, 1987)
 * Burmish
 * Written (see note above),  (?).