kwan OR kwa(l/r)

COWLICK / TUFT OF HAIR

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handlekwan oinitialkwrhymean or kwcoverK · NLWT

Notes

The reconstruction of the final is uncertain, since both Jingpho and Chinese have merged *-n with *-r and *-l.

Chinese comparandum

丱 OC *kwɑn, GSR #187a ‘tufts of hair’; Schuessler 2007:265 *krôns; Mand. guàn

Reflexes & cognates3 reflexes · 3 subgroups

1.7.3.1Jingpho1

Jingphokhōn ‘cowlick; circular flexure, as in the hair of animals, esp. horses regarded as a sign of temper or luck.’Hansson 89 AHKP: 311

9.0.1Old Chinese1

Chinese (Old/Mid)kwɑn/kuɑn- ‘two tufts of hair on child's head’Karlgren 57 GSR: 187a

9.0.2Middle Chinese1

Chinese (Middle)kûanʼ ‘two tufts of hair, like horns’Karlgren 23 ChDc: 443

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #2021, *kwan OR *kwa(l/r) ‘COWLICK / TUFT OF HAIR’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2021

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-2021,
  title  = {{*kwan OR *kwa(l/r) 'COWLICK / TUFT OF HAIR'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #2021},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2021}
}