See s-r(j)ak on Wiktionary
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"text": "Old Chinese: 夜 (*ɴ.rak-s (B-S), *laːgs (ZS), “night”)"
},
{
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"text": "Middle Chinese: 夜 (jiaH)"
},
{
"depth": 3,
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"text": "Modern Mandarin"
},
{
"depth": 4,
"templates": [],
"text": "Beijing: 夜 (yè), /i̯ɛ⁵¹/"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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"text": "Kamarupan"
},
{
"depth": 2,
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"text": "Kuki-Chin"
},
{
"depth": 2,
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"text": "*riak-I, riaʔ-II (“to spend the night; overnight”) (VanBik, 2009)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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"text": "Himalayish"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Tibeto-Kanauri"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [],
"text": "Bodic"
},
{
"depth": 4,
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"text": "Tibetan"
},
{
"depth": 5,
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"1": "bo",
"2": "ཞག",
"t": "day (24 hours)"
},
"expansion": "Tibetan: ཞག (zhag, “day (24 hours)”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Written Tibetan: ཞག (zhag, “day (24 hours)”) (> ཞག་པོ (zhag po, “day (24 hours); night”), ཞག་མལ (zhag mal, “night's lodging”))"
},
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"depth": 1,
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"text": "Lolo-Burmese: /*ʔrak/ (\"night, spend the night\") (Matisoff, 1972)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Burmish"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "my",
"2": "ရက်",
"t": "day (24 hours)"
},
"expansion": "Burmese: ရက် (rak, “day (24 hours)”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Burmese: ရက် (rak, “day (24 hours)”)"
},
{
"depth": 3,
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"2": "*ʔ-rakᴸ",
"3": "*C-yakᴸ",
"t": "night",
"t2": "spend the night"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Loloish: *ʔ-rakᴸ (“night”), *C-yakᴸ (“spend the night”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Proto-Loloish: *ʔ-rakᴸ (“night”), *C-yakᴸ (“spend the night”) (Bradley, 1979)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Loloish"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [],
"text": "Northern Loloish"
},
{
"depth": 4,
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"1": "classifier"
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"name": "i"
}
],
"text": "Yi (Liangshan): ꉖ (hxot, “(classifier) night”)"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [],
"text": "Central Loloish"
},
{
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"expansion": "(classifier)",
"name": "i"
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],
"text": "Lisu (Southern): ꓦꓬꓼ (h̃jɑ̱̀, “(classifier) night”)"
}
],
"etymology_text": "* Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *riak/rjiak (Coblin, 1986)\n** Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *s-r(y)ak (Matisoff, STEDT); *ryak (Benedict, 1972)\nSchuessler (2007) assigned Chinese 夜 (yè) to → *ja (“night”) instead. Benedict (1972) listed Chinese 宿 as a reflex of this root, but the initials and vowels are difficult to reconcile.",
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"depth": 1,
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"text": "Old Chinese: 夜 (*ɴ.rak-s (B-S), *laːgs (ZS), “night”)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
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"text": "Middle Chinese: 夜 (jiaH)"
},
{
"depth": 3,
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"text": "Modern Mandarin"
},
{
"depth": 4,
"templates": [],
"text": "Beijing: 夜 (yè), /i̯ɛ⁵¹/"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Kamarupan"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Kuki-Chin"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "*riak-I, riaʔ-II (“to spend the night; overnight”) (VanBik, 2009)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "Himalayish"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Tibeto-Kanauri"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [],
"text": "Bodic"
},
{
"depth": 4,
"templates": [],
"text": "Tibetan"
},
{
"depth": 5,
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"1": "bo",
"2": "ཞག",
"t": "day (24 hours)"
},
"expansion": "Tibetan: ཞག (zhag, “day (24 hours)”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Written Tibetan: ཞག (zhag, “day (24 hours)”) (> ཞག་པོ (zhag po, “day (24 hours); night”), ཞག་མལ (zhag mal, “night's lodging”))"
},
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"depth": 1,
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"text": "Lolo-Burmese: /*ʔrak/ (\"night, spend the night\") (Matisoff, 1972)"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Burmish"
},
{
"depth": 3,
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{
"args": {
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"2": "ရက်",
"t": "day (24 hours)"
},
"expansion": "Burmese: ရက် (rak, “day (24 hours)”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Burmese: ရက် (rak, “day (24 hours)”)"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [
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"args": {
"1": "tbq-lol-pro",
"2": "*ʔ-rakᴸ",
"3": "*C-yakᴸ",
"t": "night",
"t2": "spend the night"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Loloish: *ʔ-rakᴸ (“night”), *C-yakᴸ (“spend the night”)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Proto-Loloish: *ʔ-rakᴸ (“night”), *C-yakᴸ (“spend the night”) (Bradley, 1979)"
},
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"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Loloish"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [],
"text": "Northern Loloish"
},
{
"depth": 4,
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"expansion": "(classifier)",
"name": "i"
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],
"text": "Yi (Liangshan): ꉖ (hxot, “(classifier) night”)"
},
{
"depth": 3,
"templates": [],
"text": "Central Loloish"
},
{
"depth": 4,
"templates": [
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"expansion": "(classifier)",
"name": "i"
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],
"text": "Lisu (Southern): ꓦꓬꓼ (h̃jɑ̱̀, “(classifier) night”)"
}
],
"etymology_text": "* Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *riak/rjiak (Coblin, 1986)\n** Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *s-r(y)ak (Matisoff, STEDT); *ryak (Benedict, 1972)\nSchuessler (2007) assigned Chinese 夜 (yè) to → *ja (“night”) instead. Benedict (1972) listed Chinese 宿 as a reflex of this root, but the initials and vowels are difficult to reconcile.",
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