STEDT
STEDT #1115

*yar

MOUTH / MOUSTACHE / BEARD

Reconstruction analysis

handleyar/tinitialyrhymea(r/t)coverL · LT

Connections

HPTB*yar ‘beard / moustache’p. 390

Notes

The final -t in the Lepcha form is unexplained, in view of the fact that Lepcha preserves final -r.

Reflexes & cognates12 reflexes · 7 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmanyar ‘beard / moustache’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 620

2.1.3Lepcha1

Lepchaprefix-yát ‘beard’Matisoff 87 BP

2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang2

Kham'yā:h ‘mouth’Matisoff 87 BP
Kham'yaːh ‘mouth’Watters 89 KhQ: 1.42

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1115, *yar ‘MOUTH / MOUSTACHE / BEARD’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1115
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. HPTB p.390
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-1115,
  title  = {{*yar 'MOUTH / MOUSTACHE / BEARD'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1115},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1115}
}