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STEDT #293

*lay

LEAF / PAPER
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Intermediate reconstructions

Northern Naga/Konyakian*lay ‘LEAF / BOOK’

Notes

This etymon is derived from the Indo-Aryan root LIKH ‘scratch, write’ (Turner 1966: 640-641). Compare Skt. likhá- ‘writer’ with Jingpho làikā ‘book’.

Reflexes & cognates11 reflexes · 8 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)2

1.2.1.1Northern Chin1

Tiddimˋlaːi ‘paper, letter’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 123

1.3.4Tangkhulic1

Tangkhullai◦rikmorpheme ‘book’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 123

1.4Meithei1

Meitheilai◦likmorpheme ‘book’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 123

1.7.1.1Bodo3

Bodolay◦zabmorpheme ‘book’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 123
Dimasabamorpheme-lai ‘leaf’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 123

1.7.2Northern Naga/Konyakian2

*Northern Nagalay ‘leaf / book’French 83: 510

1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang4

Changlie n‘leaf’Marrison 67 Naga
Changlie ‘leaf, book’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 123

1.7.3.1Jingpho1

Jingpholài◦kāmorpheme ‘book’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 123

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #293, *lay ‘LEAF / PAPER’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/293
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. HPTB p,209, GSTC #123
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-293,
  title  = {{*lay 'LEAF / PAPER'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #293},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/293}
}