On the pronunciation of 姐
While discussing relationship-based honourifics, I went looking to see how the word for older sister, 姐, might have been pronounced in Middle Chinese. I checked the Baxter-Sagart reconstruction document (revised 2014), but they didn’t include this particular character, and the only one with the same modern pronunciation of jie3 was 解, reconstructed as “keaX” (in Baxter’s …