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Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/bjar ~ pjar

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: *piar/biar (Coblin, 1986)
- Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *byar ⪤ *pyar (Matisoff, STEDT; Benedict, 1972), *byɑ̂r~pyɑ̂r (Chou, 1972)

Related to *p(r)an/t ~ b(r)an/t (“to braid, to weave, to plait”).

Verb

*bjar ~ pjar

to affix, to plait, to sew, to braid

Descendants

Kamarupan
- Kuki-Chin
  - Central Chin
    - Lushai [Mizo]: phiar (“to knit, to plait”)
Himalayish
- Tibeto-Kanauri
  - Bodic
    - Tibetan
      - Written Tibetan: འབྱར་བ ('byar ba, “to stick to, to adhere to”), སྦྱོར་བ (sbyor ba, “to link, to join; to affix, to attach”)

See also

*tak ~ dak (“to weave, to plait”)

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