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STEDT #626

*lik

FEAR
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Notes

In the original version of STC (p.175), Benedict compared Chinese 慄 ‘afraid’ (Mand. lì) to WT źed-pa ‘fear, be afraid’ (from Pre-Tibetan *ryed), but in note 466 (p.175) he proposed WT ḥdźigs-pa as a “better comparison”, assuming a shift of Old Chinese *-k to *-t after *-i-.

Chinese comparandum

慄 OC *li̯ĕt, GSR #403d ‘fear; tremble’; Coblin 1986 #77: *ljit; Mand. lì.

Reflexes & cognates4 reflexes · 4 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

2.1.2.1Tibetan1

Tibetan (Written)ḥdźigs-pasuffix ‘fear, be afraid, dread, fearful’Benedict 72 STC: 175n466

9.0.1Old Chinese2

9.0.2Middle Chinese1

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #626, *lik ‘FEAR’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/626
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. STC p.175, HPTB p.527
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-626,
  title  = {{*lik 'FEAR'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #626},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/626}
}