Reconstruction analysis
handleŋainitialŋrhymeacoverM · V
Notes
This root is confined to Tibetan, where it always seems to occur in binomes after reflexes of #305 PTB *s/r-gwa-ŋ EGG / TESTICLE. It also appears in Qiangic, although these forms look like loans from Tibetan.
Reflexes & cognates32 reflexes · 5 subgroups
2.1.2.1Tibetan20
Tibetan (Lhasa)(ko¹³#305 PTB *s/r-gwa-ŋ ‘EGG / TESTICLE’ŋa¹³)taŋ⁵⁵morpheme ‘lay (egg)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 785.2
Tibetan (Written)sgo#305 PTB *s/r-gwa-ŋ ‘EGG / TESTICLE’ ŋa n‘egg’The first syllable of WT sgo-pur ‘foreskin (vulg.)’ does not appear to descend from this etymon, but seems rather to mean ‘door; aperture, outlet’. However, Jäschke does not include this under compounds with sgo ‘door’ (114-6), but rather lists it as a separate head-entry (p. 116). The meaning of the second syllable -pur is unclear, though there might be a connection with ḥp'ur-ba ‘wrap up, envelop’.Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0450.01
Tibetan (Written)sgo#305 PTB *s/r-gwa-ŋ ‘EGG / TESTICLE’ ŋa gtoŋmorpheme ‘lay (egg)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 785.1
3.1Tangut1
3.2Qiangic3
3.3rGyalrongic3
3.3.1rGyalrong5
rGyalrong (Aba Kehe Shuiricun)rgoŋ'#305 PTB *s/r-gwa-ŋ ‘EGG / TESTICLE’◦ŋa ‘egg’Nagano 2013 rGyDB: 0326
rGyalrong (Ganzi Seda Geletuo Naoluocun)zgoŋ'#305 PTB *s/r-gwa-ŋ ‘EGG / TESTICLE’◦ŋa ‘egg’Nagano 2013 rGyDB: 0326
rGyalrong (Ganzi Daofu Jiasikong kharjiacun)zgə'#305 PTB *s/r-gwa-ŋ ‘EGG / TESTICLE’◦ŋa ‘egg’Nagano 2013 rGyDB: 0326
Cite this entry
STEDT etymon #1610,
*s-ŋa ‘EGG / HATCH’.Stable link:
https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1610Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: seems to always follow tag 305
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-1610,
title = {{*s-ŋa 'EGG / HATCH'}},
author = {STEDT},
year = {2017},
note = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1610},
url = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1610}
}