8.0 Abstract Nouns and Verbs, Psychological Verbs, Verbs of Utterance > 8.3 Psychological verbs > 8.3.1 Verbs of Feeling > 8.3.1.10 ? > 8.3.1.10.1 Fear

#626 PTB *lik FEAR

In the original version of STC (p.175), Benedict compared Chinese 慄 ‘afraid’ (Mand. ) 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‑.

rnanalysislgidreflexglossgfnlanguagegrpidgrpnogrpgeneticcitationsrcabbrsrcidrn
5153606262012likfear*Tibeto-Burman20.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)0Matisoff 03 HPTBJAM-HPTB6000
304873626,s1578ḥdźigs-pafear, be afraid, dread, fearfulTibetan (Written)242.1.2.1Tibetan1Benedict 72 STCSTC175n4660
20304626480li̯ĕtfearChinese (Old/Mid)539.0.1Old Chinese0Chou 72ACST403d0
76910626478ljitfearChinese (Old)539.0.1Old Chinese0Coblin 86WSC-SH770
76911626468ljetfearChinese (Middle)549.0.2Middle Chinese0Coblin 86WSC-SH770

Chinese comparandum

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