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STEDT #2665

*sru(w)

AUNT / ELDER SISTER / FATHER-IN-LAW / RELATIVE
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

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Connections

HPTB*sru(w) ‘aunt / elder sister’pp. 77, 198, 475

Notes

This etymon is noteworthy in that it seems to have a solid reflex in the extinct language Pyu, spoken in Northern Burma in the second half of the first millennium A.D.

Chinese comparandum

嬃 OC *si̯u, GSR #133e; Mand. xū.
叟 sǒu s.ruʔ (dial. › sruʔ › srjuwX › sruwX › suwX)

Reflexes & cognates8 reflexes · 6 subgroups

0Sino-Tibetan (previously published reconstructions)1

*Sino-Tibetansljuɣ ‘aunt / elder sister’Coblin 86: 38

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)2

*Tibeto-Burmansru(w) ‘aunt / elder sister’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 613

2.1.1Western Himalayish2

Kanaurirū n‘father-in-law’Bailey 11
Kanauriru ‘father-in-law’Benedict 72 STC: 108n304

2.1.2.1Tibetan3

Tibetan (Written)sro momorpheme n‘aunt <mother's sister>’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0241.01
Tibetan (Written)sru momorpheme ‘aunt (maternal)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 330.1

6.1.1Burmish1

Pyusru ‘relatives’Benedict 72 STC: 108n304

9.0.1Old Chinese2

Chinese (Old/Mid)si̯u/si̯u ‘sister (elder)’Karlgren 57 GSR: 133e
Chinese (Old/Mid)sri̯u/si̯u ‘older sister’Chou 72: 133e

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #2665, *sru(w) ‘AUNT / ELDER SISTER / FATHER-IN-LAW / RELATIVE’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2665
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. STC p.108, HPTB
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-2665,
  title  = {{*sru(w) 'AUNT / ELDER SISTER / FATHER-IN-LAW / RELATIVE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #2665},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2665}
}