*grwa

BIRCH

Reconstruction analysis

initialgrwrhymea

Notes

This comparison is from Gong 2001:28, but the OC reconstruction *gʼwå is JAM’s guess based upon the other characters in GSR #44; the Chinese character is not in AD #94 and not in GSR #44.

STC assigns the first syllable of WT gro-ga rather to #585 PTB *s-graw SKIN / OUTER COVERING.

Chinese comparandum

樺 OC (*gʼwå), (not in GSR #44) ‘birch’; Schuessler 2007:283 *(g)wrâh; B & S 2011: (*qʷʰˁra-s); Mand. huà.

Reflexes & cognates3 reflexes · 4 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmangrwa ‘birch’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 591

2.1.2.1Tibetan1

Tibetan (Written)gro-gamorpheme ‘thin bark of birch tree’Benedict 72 STC: 121

9Sinitic1

Chinese (Hanzi)樺 ‘kind of birch’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 175

9.0.1Old Chinese1

Chinese (Old)gʼwå ‘kind of birch’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 175

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #314, *grwa ‘BIRCH’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/314

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

References: HPTB p.175

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-314,
  title  = {{*grwa 'BIRCH'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #314},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/314}
}