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STEDT #1461

*kur

SCRAPE / SCRATCH / SCOOP
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

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Notes

This root is reconstructed in Weidert 1987:19. There is a perhaps fortuitous resemblance with Nepali khur-kənu ‘scrape off’ (cf. the Indo-Aryan etymon *KUR ‘scrape’ in Turner 1966:171), but in any case this could only have affected the Chepang and Dolakha Newar forms.

Reflexes & cognates17 reflexes · 9 subgroups

1.2.3Maraic1

Lakher [Mara]²əprefix¹kho v.‘scratch’Weidert 87 TBTo: 17

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)1

Ao (Chungli)²aprefix²kɯn v.‘scoop’Weidert 87 TBTo: 17

1.3.2Angami-Pochuri Group2

Mao¹khu v.‘scratch’Weidert 87 TBTo: 17
Rengma (Southern)¹nprefix⁴khwẽ v.‘scratch’Weidert 87 TBTo: 17

1.3.3Zeme Group2

Liangmeikhũan v.‘scratch’Weidert 87 TBTo: 17
Rongmei / Nruanghmeinprefix-xûan v.‘scratch’Weidert 87 TBTo: 17

1.5Mikir [Karbi]1

1.7.1.1Bodo2

Bodokur v.‘scrape’Weidert 87 TBTo: 17
Mechekur v.‘scrape’Weidert 87 TBTo: 17

2.2Newar1

Newar (Dolakhali)hur- ‘scratch / scrape’Genetti 90 Dola

2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang4

Chepanghərʔ-sasuffix ‘scratch (thorn)’Caughley 72 CVoc: 4.B.11
Chepangkhur v.‘scrape’Weidert 87 TBTo: 17
Chepangkhur- vt.‘trim, shave, cut off short (hair, grass, etc.) (<N khurkənu scrape off?)’Caughley 00 Chepang
Chepangkʰur-samorpheme ‘scrape’Caughley 72 CVoc: 7.B.2. 40

3.2Qiangic3

Guiqiongmi³⁵morphemekhuɛ⁵⁵ v.‘shave (hairs) / scrape’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1352.16
Namuyikhu³¹khu⁵⁵ v.‘shave (hairs) / scrape’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1352.46
Qiang (Mawo)khuɛʴ v.‘shave (hairs) / scrape’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1352.08

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1461, *kur ‘SCRAPE / SCRATCH / SCOOP’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1461
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: AW-TBT 17; b Nepali?
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-1461,
  title  = {{*kur 'SCRAPE / SCRATCH / SCOOP'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1461},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1461}
}