"tsa ~ za" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Proto-Sino-Tibetan]

Etymology: * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tsa (Chou, 1972); *tsjəɣ ~ dzjəɣ (Coblin, 1986), *tsə (Schuessler, 2007) ** Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *tsa-n ~ za-n ("child"), *m-dza-k ("to love") (Matisoff, STEDT); *za (Benedict, 1972; Weidert, 1987); *tsa ⪤ *za (LaPolla, 1987) Head templates: {{head|sit-pro|noun|cat2=roots}} *tsa ~ za
  1. child, son, offspring; grandson; relatives; nephew/niece Tags: reconstruction
    Sense id: en-tsa_~_za-sit-pro-noun-MUZ4lflz

Verb [Proto-Sino-Tibetan]

Etymology: * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tsa (Chou, 1972); *tsjəɣ ~ dzjəɣ (Coblin, 1986), *tsə (Schuessler, 2007) ** Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *tsa-n ~ za-n ("child"), *m-dza-k ("to love") (Matisoff, STEDT); *za (Benedict, 1972; Weidert, 1987); *tsa ⪤ *za (LaPolla, 1987) Head templates: {{head|sit-pro|verb|cat2=roots}} *tsa ~ za
  1. to come forth (as child at birth) - perhaps the original meaning Tags: reconstruction
    Sense id: en-tsa_~_za-sit-pro-verb-au1r1aEG Categories (other): Pages using bad params when calling Template:Sinoxenic, Proto-Sino-Tibetan entries with incorrect language header, Proto-Sino-Tibetan roots Disambiguation of Pages using bad params when calling Template:Sinoxenic: 27 62 11 Disambiguation of Proto-Sino-Tibetan entries with incorrect language header: 26 70 4 Disambiguation of Proto-Sino-Tibetan roots: 25 68 6
  2. (prenasalised) to love, to be loving Tags: reconstruction
    Sense id: en-tsa_~_za-sit-pro-verb-UQKZyCkx
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: m (english: small; inferior; offspring), s-ŋa-j (english: small; inferior; offspring), s-riŋ Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan (english: to live, to be born, raw, to give birth), tsa ~ za s-r(j)aŋ (english: to live, to be born, raw, to give birth), krwəj (english: son-in-law, daughter-in-law), maːk (english: son-in-law; genitals), Proto-Mon-Khmer: *kuun Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan (english: source of the word "child), tsa ~ za kuən (english: source of the word "child), son" in some Southern Chinese dialects (alt: e.g. 囝 (jiǎn)), in place of descendants from common ST *tsa

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{
  "etymology_text": "* Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tsa (Chou, 1972); *tsjəɣ ~ dzjəɣ (Coblin, 1986), *tsə (Schuessler, 2007)\n** Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *tsa-n ~ za-n (\"child\"), *m-dza-k (\"to love\") (Matisoff, STEDT); *za (Benedict, 1972; Weidert, 1987); *tsa ⪤ *za (LaPolla, 1987)",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sit-pro",
        "2": "noun",
        "cat2": "roots"
      },
      "expansion": "*tsa ~ za",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
  "lang_code": "sit-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/tsa ~ za",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "child, son, offspring; grandson; relatives; nephew/niece"
      ],
      "id": "en-tsa_~_za-sit-pro-noun-MUZ4lflz",
      "links": [
        [
          "child",
          "child"
        ],
        [
          "son",
          "son"
        ],
        [
          "offspring",
          "offspring"
        ],
        [
          "grandson",
          "grandson"
        ],
        [
          "relative",
          "relative"
        ],
        [
          "nephew",
          "nephew"
        ],
        [
          "niece",
          "niece"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tsa ~ za"
}

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Old Chinese:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "子",
            "t": "child",
            "tr": "*tsəʔ (B-S), *ʔslɯʔ (B-S)"
          },
          "expansion": "子 (*tsəʔ (B-S), *ʔslɯʔ (B-S), “child”)",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "子 (*tsəʔ (B-S), *ʔslɯʔ (B-S), “child”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "崽"
          },
          "expansion": "崽 (zǎi)",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "仔",
            "t": "(Southern dialect) child",
            "tr": "*tsˁəʔ (B-S, unlisted), *ʔslɯːʔ, *srɯː (B-S)"
          },
          "expansion": "仔 (*tsˁəʔ (B-S, unlisted), *ʔslɯːʔ, *srɯː (B-S), “(Southern dialect) child”)",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "~ 崽 (zǎi), 仔 (*tsˁəʔ (B-S, unlisted), *ʔslɯːʔ, *srɯː (B-S), “(Southern dialect) child”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "字",
            "t": "to bear; to give birth; to breed; to love; character",
            "tr": "*mə-dzə(ʔ)-s (B-S), *zlɯ (B-S)"
          },
          "expansion": "字 (*mə-dzə(ʔ)-s (B-S), *zlɯ (B-S), “to bear; to give birth; to breed; to love; character”)",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "字 (*mə-dzə(ʔ)-s (B-S), *zlɯ (B-S), “to bear; to give birth; to breed; to love; character”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "my",
            "2": "-"
          },
          "expansion": "Burmese",
          "name": "cog"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "my",
            "2": "စာ",
            "3": "",
            "4": "writing, letter, paper, document"
          },
          "expansion": "စာ (ca, “writing, letter, paper, document”)",
          "name": "m"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vi",
            "2": "-"
          },
          "expansion": "Vietnamese",
          "name": "cog"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vi",
            "2": "chữ",
            "3": "",
            "4": "writing, letter"
          },
          "expansion": "chữ (“writing, letter”)",
          "name": "m"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "Burmese",
            "2": "<i class=\"Mymr mention\" lang=\"my\">စာ</i> (ca, “writing, letter, paper, document”)",
            "3": "",
            "4": "Vietnamese",
            "5": "<i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"vi\">chữ</i> (“writing, letter”)",
            "l": "y"
          },
          "expansion": "→Burmese: စာ (ca, “writing, letter, paper, document”)\nVietnamese: chữ (“writing, letter”)",
          "name": "sit-loan"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→Burmese: စာ (ca, “writing, letter, paper, document”)\nVietnamese: chữ (“writing, letter”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "慈",
            "t": "loving, kind",
            "tr": "*dzə, *zɯ"
          },
          "expansion": "慈 (*dzə, *zɯ, “loving, kind”)",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "慈 (*dzə, *zɯ, “loving, kind”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "滋",
            "t": "to grow, to breed, to propagate, to bring about, to increase",
            "tr": "*tsə, *ʔsɯ"
          },
          "expansion": "滋 (*tsə, *ʔsɯ, “to grow, to breed, to propagate, to bring about, to increase”)",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "滋 (*tsə, *ʔsɯ, “to grow, to breed, to propagate, to bring about, to increase”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "孳",
            "t": "to breed, to propagate",
            "tr": "*tsə, *dzə unlisted, *ʔsɯ, *zɯ"
          },
          "expansion": "孳 (*tsə, *dzə unlisted, *ʔsɯ, *zɯ, “to breed, to propagate”)",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "孳 (*tsə, *dzə unlisted, *ʔsɯ, *zɯ, “to breed, to propagate”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Modern Mandarin"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "子"
          },
          "expansion": "子",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "崽"
          },
          "expansion": "崽 (zǎi)",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "仔"
          },
          "expansion": "仔",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "字"
          },
          "expansion": "字 (zì)",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "慈"
          },
          "expansion": "慈 (cí)",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "滋"
          },
          "expansion": "滋 (zī)",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "孳"
          },
          "expansion": "孳 (zī)",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Beijing: 子 (zǐ, /t͡sz̩²¹⁴/, \"child; diminutive\"), 崽 (zǎi), 仔 (zǎi, /t͡saɪ̯²¹⁴/, \"young animal\"), 字 (zì) (zì, /t͡sz̩⁵¹/, \"character\"), 慈 (cí) (cí, /t͡sʰz̩³⁵/, \"kind\"), 滋 (zī), 孳 (zī) (zī, /t͡sz̩⁵⁵/, \"to breed\")"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Kamarupan"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Kuki-Chin"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Central Chin"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lus",
            "2": "fa"
          },
          "expansion": "Mizo: fa",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Mizo: fa"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Khomic"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cnk",
            "2": "cäpaw"
          },
          "expansion": "Khumi Chin: cäpaw",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Khumi Chin: cäpaw"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Himalayish"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Tibeto-Kanauri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Bodic"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Tibetan"
    },
    {
      "depth": 5,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "bo",
            "2": "ཚ་བོ",
            "t": "grandson, grandchild; nephew"
          },
          "expansion": "Tibetan: ཚ་བོ (tsha bo, “grandson, grandchild; nephew”)",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "bo",
            "2": "བཙའ་བ",
            "t": "to bear, to bring forth, to give birth; to be born"
          },
          "expansion": "བཙའ་བ (btsa' ba, “to bear, to bring forth, to give birth; to be born”)",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "bo",
            "2": "མཛའ་བ",
            "t": "amicable, intimate, close, loving"
          },
          "expansion": "མཛའ་བ (mdza' ba, “amicable, intimate, close, loving”)",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Written Tibetan: ཚ་བོ (tsha bo, “grandson, grandchild; nephew”), བཙའ་བ (btsa' ba, “to bear, to bring forth, to give birth; to be born”), མཛའ་བ (mdza' ba, “amicable, intimate, close, loving”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Newar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "new",
            "2": "चिल् चा",
            "sc": "Deva",
            "t": "baby goat",
            "tr": "cil cā"
          },
          "expansion": "Newar: चिल् चा (cil cā, “baby goat”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Newar: चिल् चा (cil cā, “baby goat”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Mahakiranti"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Kiranti"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Eastern Kiranti = Rai"
    },
    {
      "depth": 5,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lif",
            "2": "ᤛᤠ",
            "gloss": "child, offspring",
            "sc": "Limb",
            "tr": "sa"
          },
          "expansion": "Limbu: ᤛᤠ (sa, “child, offspring”)",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lif",
            "2": "ᤛᤠ᤹"
          },
          "expansion": "ᤛᤠ᤹ (sa’)",
          "name": "m"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lif",
            "2": "ᤏᤢᤛᤠ᤹",
            "t": "younger sibling"
          },
          "expansion": "ᤏᤢᤛᤠ᤹ (nusa’, “younger sibling”)",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lif",
            "2": "ᤑᤠᤰᤛᤠ᤹",
            "t": "piglet"
          },
          "expansion": "ᤑᤠᤰᤛᤠ᤹ (phaksa’, “piglet”)",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Limbu: ᤛᤠ (sa, “child, offspring”) (ᤛᤠ᤹ (sa’) in compounds, e.g. ᤏᤢᤛᤠ᤹ (nusa’, “younger sibling”), ᤑᤠᤰᤛᤠ᤹ (phaksa’, “piglet”))"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Lolo-Burmese-Naxi"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Lolo-Burmese"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Burmish"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "my",
            "2": "သား",
            "t": "son, child, offspring"
          },
          "expansion": "Burmese: သား (sa:, “son, child, offspring”)",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "my",
            "2": "စာ",
            "t": "to have tender regard for, to feel for"
          },
          "expansion": "စာ (ca, “to have tender regard for, to feel for”)",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Written Burmese: သား (sa:, “son, child, offspring”), စာ (ca, “to have tender regard for, to feel for”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Loloish"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "/*ʒa²/ (Hansson, 1989)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "* Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tsa (Chou, 1972); *tsjəɣ ~ dzjəɣ (Coblin, 1986), *tsə (Schuessler, 2007)\n** Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *tsa-n ~ za-n (\"child\"), *m-dza-k (\"to love\") (Matisoff, STEDT); *za (Benedict, 1972; Weidert, 1987); *tsa ⪤ *za (LaPolla, 1987)",
  "head_templates": [
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      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
  "lang_code": "sit-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/tsa ~ za",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "small; inferior; offspring",
      "word": "m"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "small; inferior; offspring",
      "word": "s-ŋa-j"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "to live, to be born, raw, to give birth",
      "word": "s-riŋ Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "to live, to be born, raw, to give birth",
      "word": "tsa ~ za s-r(j)aŋ"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "son-in-law, daughter-in-law",
      "word": "krwəj"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "son-in-law; genitals",
      "word": "maːk"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "source of the word \"child",
      "word": "Proto-Mon-Khmer: *kuun Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "source of the word \"child",
      "word": "tsa ~ za kuən"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "alt": "e.g. 囝 (jiǎn)",
      "word": "son\" in some Southern Chinese dialects"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "in place of descendants from common ST *tsa"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "27 62 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages using bad params when calling Template:Sinoxenic",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 70 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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        {
          "_dis": "25 68 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan roots",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to come forth (as child at birth) - perhaps the original meaning"
      ],
      "id": "en-tsa_~_za-sit-pro-verb-au1r1aEG",
      "links": [
        [
          "come forth",
          "come forth"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to love, to be loving"
      ],
      "id": "en-tsa_~_za-sit-pro-verb-UQKZyCkx",
      "links": [
        [
          "love",
          "love"
        ],
        [
          "loving",
          "loving"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(prenasalised) to love, to be loving"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tsa ~ za"
}
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    "Pages using bad params when calling Template:Sinoxenic",
    "Proto-Sino-Tibetan entries with incorrect language header",
    "Proto-Sino-Tibetan lemmas",
    "Proto-Sino-Tibetan nouns",
    "Proto-Sino-Tibetan roots",
    "Proto-Sino-Tibetan verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "* Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tsa (Chou, 1972); *tsjəɣ ~ dzjəɣ (Coblin, 1986), *tsə (Schuessler, 2007)\n** Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *tsa-n ~ za-n (\"child\"), *m-dza-k (\"to love\") (Matisoff, STEDT); *za (Benedict, 1972; Weidert, 1987); *tsa ⪤ *za (LaPolla, 1987)",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sit-pro",
        "2": "noun",
        "cat2": "roots"
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      "expansion": "*tsa ~ za",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
  "lang_code": "sit-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/tsa ~ za",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "child, son, offspring; grandson; relatives; nephew/niece"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "child",
          "child"
        ],
        [
          "son",
          "son"
        ],
        [
          "offspring",
          "offspring"
        ],
        [
          "grandson",
          "grandson"
        ],
        [
          "relative",
          "relative"
        ],
        [
          "nephew",
          "nephew"
        ],
        [
          "niece",
          "niece"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tsa ~ za"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Pages using bad params when calling Template:Sinoxenic",
    "Proto-Sino-Tibetan entries with incorrect language header",
    "Proto-Sino-Tibetan lemmas",
    "Proto-Sino-Tibetan nouns",
    "Proto-Sino-Tibetan roots",
    "Proto-Sino-Tibetan verbs"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Old Chinese:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "子",
            "t": "child",
            "tr": "*tsəʔ (B-S), *ʔslɯʔ (B-S)"
          },
          "expansion": "子 (*tsəʔ (B-S), *ʔslɯʔ (B-S), “child”)",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "子 (*tsəʔ (B-S), *ʔslɯʔ (B-S), “child”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "崽"
          },
          "expansion": "崽 (zǎi)",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "仔",
            "t": "(Southern dialect) child",
            "tr": "*tsˁəʔ (B-S, unlisted), *ʔslɯːʔ, *srɯː (B-S)"
          },
          "expansion": "仔 (*tsˁəʔ (B-S, unlisted), *ʔslɯːʔ, *srɯː (B-S), “(Southern dialect) child”)",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "~ 崽 (zǎi), 仔 (*tsˁəʔ (B-S, unlisted), *ʔslɯːʔ, *srɯː (B-S), “(Southern dialect) child”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "字",
            "t": "to bear; to give birth; to breed; to love; character",
            "tr": "*mə-dzə(ʔ)-s (B-S), *zlɯ (B-S)"
          },
          "expansion": "字 (*mə-dzə(ʔ)-s (B-S), *zlɯ (B-S), “to bear; to give birth; to breed; to love; character”)",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "字 (*mə-dzə(ʔ)-s (B-S), *zlɯ (B-S), “to bear; to give birth; to breed; to love; character”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "my",
            "2": "-"
          },
          "expansion": "Burmese",
          "name": "cog"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "my",
            "2": "စာ",
            "3": "",
            "4": "writing, letter, paper, document"
          },
          "expansion": "စာ (ca, “writing, letter, paper, document”)",
          "name": "m"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vi",
            "2": "-"
          },
          "expansion": "Vietnamese",
          "name": "cog"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vi",
            "2": "chữ",
            "3": "",
            "4": "writing, letter"
          },
          "expansion": "chữ (“writing, letter”)",
          "name": "m"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "Burmese",
            "2": "<i class=\"Mymr mention\" lang=\"my\">စာ</i> (ca, “writing, letter, paper, document”)",
            "3": "",
            "4": "Vietnamese",
            "5": "<i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"vi\">chữ</i> (“writing, letter”)",
            "l": "y"
          },
          "expansion": "→Burmese: စာ (ca, “writing, letter, paper, document”)\nVietnamese: chữ (“writing, letter”)",
          "name": "sit-loan"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→Burmese: စာ (ca, “writing, letter, paper, document”)\nVietnamese: chữ (“writing, letter”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "慈",
            "t": "loving, kind",
            "tr": "*dzə, *zɯ"
          },
          "expansion": "慈 (*dzə, *zɯ, “loving, kind”)",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "慈 (*dzə, *zɯ, “loving, kind”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "滋",
            "t": "to grow, to breed, to propagate, to bring about, to increase",
            "tr": "*tsə, *ʔsɯ"
          },
          "expansion": "滋 (*tsə, *ʔsɯ, “to grow, to breed, to propagate, to bring about, to increase”)",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "滋 (*tsə, *ʔsɯ, “to grow, to breed, to propagate, to bring about, to increase”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "孳",
            "t": "to breed, to propagate",
            "tr": "*tsə, *dzə unlisted, *ʔsɯ, *zɯ"
          },
          "expansion": "孳 (*tsə, *dzə unlisted, *ʔsɯ, *zɯ, “to breed, to propagate”)",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "孳 (*tsə, *dzə unlisted, *ʔsɯ, *zɯ, “to breed, to propagate”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Modern Mandarin"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "子"
          },
          "expansion": "子",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "崽"
          },
          "expansion": "崽 (zǎi)",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "仔"
          },
          "expansion": "仔",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "字"
          },
          "expansion": "字 (zì)",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "慈"
          },
          "expansion": "慈 (cí)",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "滋"
          },
          "expansion": "滋 (zī)",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "zh",
            "2": "孳"
          },
          "expansion": "孳 (zī)",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Beijing: 子 (zǐ, /t͡sz̩²¹⁴/, \"child; diminutive\"), 崽 (zǎi), 仔 (zǎi, /t͡saɪ̯²¹⁴/, \"young animal\"), 字 (zì) (zì, /t͡sz̩⁵¹/, \"character\"), 慈 (cí) (cí, /t͡sʰz̩³⁵/, \"kind\"), 滋 (zī), 孳 (zī) (zī, /t͡sz̩⁵⁵/, \"to breed\")"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Kamarupan"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Kuki-Chin"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Central Chin"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lus",
            "2": "fa"
          },
          "expansion": "Mizo: fa",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Mizo: fa"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Khomic"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cnk",
            "2": "cäpaw"
          },
          "expansion": "Khumi Chin: cäpaw",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Khumi Chin: cäpaw"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Himalayish"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Tibeto-Kanauri"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Bodic"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Tibetan"
    },
    {
      "depth": 5,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "bo",
            "2": "ཚ་བོ",
            "t": "grandson, grandchild; nephew"
          },
          "expansion": "Tibetan: ཚ་བོ (tsha bo, “grandson, grandchild; nephew”)",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "bo",
            "2": "བཙའ་བ",
            "t": "to bear, to bring forth, to give birth; to be born"
          },
          "expansion": "བཙའ་བ (btsa' ba, “to bear, to bring forth, to give birth; to be born”)",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "bo",
            "2": "མཛའ་བ",
            "t": "amicable, intimate, close, loving"
          },
          "expansion": "མཛའ་བ (mdza' ba, “amicable, intimate, close, loving”)",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Written Tibetan: ཚ་བོ (tsha bo, “grandson, grandchild; nephew”), བཙའ་བ (btsa' ba, “to bear, to bring forth, to give birth; to be born”), མཛའ་བ (mdza' ba, “amicable, intimate, close, loving”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Newar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "new",
            "2": "चिल् चा",
            "sc": "Deva",
            "t": "baby goat",
            "tr": "cil cā"
          },
          "expansion": "Newar: चिल् चा (cil cā, “baby goat”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Newar: चिल् चा (cil cā, “baby goat”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Mahakiranti"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Kiranti"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Eastern Kiranti = Rai"
    },
    {
      "depth": 5,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lif",
            "2": "ᤛᤠ",
            "gloss": "child, offspring",
            "sc": "Limb",
            "tr": "sa"
          },
          "expansion": "Limbu: ᤛᤠ (sa, “child, offspring”)",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lif",
            "2": "ᤛᤠ᤹"
          },
          "expansion": "ᤛᤠ᤹ (sa’)",
          "name": "m"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lif",
            "2": "ᤏᤢᤛᤠ᤹",
            "t": "younger sibling"
          },
          "expansion": "ᤏᤢᤛᤠ᤹ (nusa’, “younger sibling”)",
          "name": "l"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lif",
            "2": "ᤑᤠᤰᤛᤠ᤹",
            "t": "piglet"
          },
          "expansion": "ᤑᤠᤰᤛᤠ᤹ (phaksa’, “piglet”)",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Limbu: ᤛᤠ (sa, “child, offspring”) (ᤛᤠ᤹ (sa’) in compounds, e.g. ᤏᤢᤛᤠ᤹ (nusa’, “younger sibling”), ᤑᤠᤰᤛᤠ᤹ (phaksa’, “piglet”))"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Lolo-Burmese-Naxi"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Lolo-Burmese"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Burmish"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "my",
            "2": "သား",
            "t": "son, child, offspring"
          },
          "expansion": "Burmese: သား (sa:, “son, child, offspring”)",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "my",
            "2": "စာ",
            "t": "to have tender regard for, to feel for"
          },
          "expansion": "စာ (ca, “to have tender regard for, to feel for”)",
          "name": "l"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Written Burmese: သား (sa:, “son, child, offspring”), စာ (ca, “to have tender regard for, to feel for”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Loloish"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "/*ʒa²/ (Hansson, 1989)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "* Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tsa (Chou, 1972); *tsjəɣ ~ dzjəɣ (Coblin, 1986), *tsə (Schuessler, 2007)\n** Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *tsa-n ~ za-n (\"child\"), *m-dza-k (\"to love\") (Matisoff, STEDT); *za (Benedict, 1972; Weidert, 1987); *tsa ⪤ *za (LaPolla, 1987)",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sit-pro",
        "2": "verb",
        "cat2": "roots"
      },
      "expansion": "*tsa ~ za",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Sino-Tibetan",
  "lang_code": "sit-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/tsa ~ za",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "small; inferior; offspring",
      "word": "m"
    },
    {
      "english": "small; inferior; offspring",
      "word": "s-ŋa-j"
    },
    {
      "english": "to live, to be born, raw, to give birth",
      "word": "s-riŋ Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan"
    },
    {
      "english": "to live, to be born, raw, to give birth",
      "word": "tsa ~ za s-r(j)aŋ"
    },
    {
      "english": "son-in-law, daughter-in-law",
      "word": "krwəj"
    },
    {
      "english": "son-in-law; genitals",
      "word": "maːk"
    },
    {
      "english": "source of the word \"child",
      "word": "Proto-Mon-Khmer: *kuun Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan"
    },
    {
      "english": "source of the word \"child",
      "word": "tsa ~ za kuən"
    },
    {
      "alt": "e.g. 囝 (jiǎn)",
      "word": "son\" in some Southern Chinese dialects"
    },
    {
      "word": "in place of descendants from common ST *tsa"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to come forth (as child at birth) - perhaps the original meaning"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "come forth",
          "come forth"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to love, to be loving"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "love",
          "love"
        ],
        [
          "loving",
          "loving"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(prenasalised) to love, to be loving"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tsa ~ za"
}

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