ချစ်

Inherited from Old Burmese ချတ် (khyat) or Old Burmese ခေတ် (khet), ultimately cognate with Zaiwa chyit (“to love”). Gong and Hill identify the Burmese term as more distantly cognate to Tibetan སྐྱིད་པ (skyid pa, “happy”) and Old Chinese 吉 (OC *klid, “auspicious”) (Gong 1995 p. 72, Hill 2019 p. 228). See Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sV-qjit (“to be happy”) for the proto-form under such a hypothesis. STEDT's setup of Proto-Tibeto-Burman *kri(k/ŋ) (“to love”), done for the purpose of linking this Burmese word and Tibetan འཁྲིག ('khrig, “to copulate”), fails to phonetically account for the -t-final rhyme in Zaiwa. Luce (1981, p. 58)'s comparisons to Tibetan ཆགས་པ (chags pa, “desire, attachment”) and Chinese 愛 /爱 (ài, “to love”) are also phonetically impossible.