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STEDT #1130

*ka-y

FLESH / MEAT

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handlekainitialkrhymea-ysuffixycoverK · VW

Notes

This root bears a certain resemblance to #49 PTB *gray LEAN / THIN, but the different semantics leads us to set it up as a separate etymon.

Chinese comparandum

肌 OC *ki̯ɛr, GSR #602d; B & S 2011: *krəj {krə[j]}; Mand. jī.

Reflexes & cognates22 reflexes · 7 subgroups

2.1.2Bodic2

Baimashɑ¹³#34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’MesorootsPKC *sʰaa ‘ANIMAL / FLESH / MEAT’PCN *a-ʃaʔ ‘ANIMAL / MEAT, FLESH’PTk *sa ‘FLESH / MEAT / ANIMAL’Allofams1 #5711 PTB *sya-n ⪤ *sin ‘FLESH / ANIMAL / BODY / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’1a #34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’1b #318 PTB *sin ‘BODY / OWNER / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’ kɛ³⁵ ‘flesh / meat’Sun H 91 Baim: 1.11

Baimaʃhɑ¹³#34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’MesorootsPKC *sʰaa ‘ANIMAL / FLESH / MEAT’PCN *a-ʃaʔ ‘ANIMAL / MEAT, FLESH’PTk *sa ‘FLESH / MEAT / ANIMAL’Allofams1 #5711 PTB *sya-n ⪤ *sin ‘FLESH / ANIMAL / BODY / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’1a #34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’1b #318 PTB *sin ‘BODY / OWNER / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’ kɛ³⁵ ‘muscle’Sun H 91 Baim: 8.8

6.1.2.2Central Loloish4

Jinuoke³⁵ ‘meat / flesh’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 399.34

Jinuo (Youle)kə³³ e⁴⁴morpheme ‘meat, flesh’Gai 86

Jinuo (Baya/Banai)kɤ³³ e⁴⁴morpheme ‘meat’Dai 89 JinA: 584

Jinuo (Baka)kɤ³³ ji⁴⁴morpheme ‘meat’Dai 89 JinB: 584

8Bai8

Bai (Bijiang)qɑ̱²¹ ‘meat, flesh’Xu 84 Bai

Bai (Bijiang)qɑ²¹ ‘meat / flesh’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 399.37

Bai (Dali)koe 7 ‘meat’Dell 81: 54

Bai (Dali)kœ⁷ ‘meat’Dell 81: pp.150-169

Bai (Jianchuan)ka⁴² n‘flesh / muscle’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0128.48

Bai (Jianchuan)kæ̱²¹ ‘flesh / meat’Zhao 90: 1.11

Bai (Jianchuan)kɛ̱²¹ ‘meat, flesh’Xu 84 Bai

Bai (Jianchuan)kɛ²¹ ‘meat / flesh’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 399.36

9Sinitic3

Chinese (Hanzi)肌 ‘flesh’BaxterSagart 2011: 1203

Chinese (Hanzi)肌◦肉morpheme ‘flesh’Nagano 2013 rGyDB: 0203

Chinese (GSR #)0602d ‘flesh’BaxterSagart 2011: 1203

9.0.1Old Chinese2

Chinese (Old/Mid)ki̯ɛr/kji ‘flesh’Karlgren 57 GSR: 602d

Chinese (Old)krəj {krə[j]} ‘flesh’BaxterSagart 2011: 1203

9.0.2Middle Chinese1

Chinese (Middle)kij ‘flesh’BaxterSagart 2011: 1203

9.0.3Modern Chinese2

Chinese (Mandarin)jī ‘flesh’BaxterSagart 2011: 1203

Chinese (Mandarin)ki ‘flesh’Karlgren 57 GSR: 602d

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1130, *ka-y ‘FLESH / MEAT’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1130

Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-1130,
  title  = {{*ka-y 'FLESH / MEAT'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1130},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1130}
}