The Chinese name of the autumn: 秋 *tsʰiw > tshjuw > qiū ‘autumn; crop’ is relatable to 揫 *[dz]iw > dzjuw > jiū ‘collect, bring together (K)’. We may have to emend [dz]iw to m-tsʰiw (although Mandarin jiū suggests *m-tsiw). There are other cases of alternation between aspirated and non-aspirated stops/affricates in related words.
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Laurent Sagart (February 11, 2023). Chinese 秋 ‘autumn’: time of collecting. Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian. Retrieved October 4, 2024 from https://doi.org/10.58079/ukdu