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STEDT #2592

*g/s-rwa

TARO / YAM / TUBER

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handleraprefixsinitialrrhymea=śracoverL · LS

Intermediate reconstructions

Kuki-Chin*hraa ‘YAM / POTATO’PKC #1102

Connections

HPTB*s-r(y)a ‘yam / potato’pp. 78, 173

Notes

The Written Tibetan comparison with GSR #97o is due to Gong 2001 #28, who reconstructs PST *grwa. STC reconstructs 薯 as PTB *źra, which he regards as a doublet of his PTB *śra, reconstructed in STC #434 (but mistakenly listed as *s-ra in the Index p. 207).

We are regarding both Chinese forms cited as allofamically related.

Chinese comparandum

薯 OC *d’i̯o, not in GSR #45; Mand. shǔ.
芋 OC *gi̯wo ‘taro’, GSR #97o; B & S 2011: *ɢʷa-s {[ɢ]ʷ(r)a-s}; Schuessler 2007:589 *wah; Mand. yù.

Reflexes & cognates18 reflexes · 11 subgroups

Lushai [Mizo]hrá kài n‘name of a species of wild edible yam’VanBik 09 PKC: 1102

1.4Meithei1

Meitheiha ‘potato, yam’Benedict 72 STC: 434

1.7.1.1Bodo3

Dimasatha ‘potato, yam’Benedict 72 STC: 108n304

Dimasatha ‘potato, yam’Benedict 72 STC: 434

Dimasatha◦remmorpheme ‘yam’Marrison 67 Naga

1.7.1.2Garo2

Garotha ‘potato, yam’Benedict 72 STC: 108n304

Garotha ‘potato, yam’Benedict 72 STC: 434

1.7.1.4Deori1

Deori/Deurita ‘yam’Brown 95: 69

2.1.2.1Tibetan1

Tibetan (Written)gró-mamorpheme ‘medicinal herb, potato’Jäschke 1881: p.78

9.0.1Old Chinese2

Chinese (Old/Mid)di̯o/źi̯wo ‘bulb / tuber / potato’Chou 72: 45

Chinese (Old/Mid)dʻi̯o / źi̯wo ‘potato, bulb, tuber’Benedict 72 STC: 108n304

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #2592, *g/s-rwa ‘TARO / YAM / TUBER’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2592

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

References: cf. HPTB pp. 78, 173; STC#434

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-2592,
  title  = {{*g/s-rwa 'TARO / YAM / TUBER'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #2592},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2592}
}