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STEDT #324

*s(w/y)ar

FINGER

Reconstruction analysis

handlesiinitialsrhymei ⪤ sercoverS · LS

Notes

WT has both ser-mo and sor-mo, but the latter seems to be merely a colloquial variant (Jäschke p. 577 and 580).

Reflexes & cognates12 reflexes · 2 subgroups

2.1.2Bodic1

Kaikesar◦my#416 PTB *m(y)uk ⪤ *r-mi-k ‘NAIL / CLAW / HOOF’ ‘fingernail’Matisoff 87 BP

2.1.2.1Tibetan11

Tibetan (Alike)sor clf‘fingersbreadth’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0902.05

Tibetan (Jirel)'ser◦mukq#416 PTB *m(y)uk ⪤ *r-mi-k ‘NAIL / CLAW / HOOF’ ‘fingernail’Matisoff 87 BP

Tibetan (Lhasa)sor⁵⁵ clf‘fingersbreadth’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0902.02

Sherpaser◦muq#416 PTB *m(y)uk ⪤ *r-mi-k ‘NAIL / CLAW / HOOF’ ‘fingernail’Matisoff 87 BP

Tibetan (Written)pʻyag#705 PTB *p-yak ‘ARM’Allofams1 #377 PTB *lak ⪤ *C-yak ‘ARM / HAND / WING’1a #695 PTB *lak ‘HAND/LIMB’1b #696 PTB *yak ‘ARM / HAND / ARMPIT / TICKLE’1c #699 PTB *d-yak ‘HAND / ARM / LEAF’1d #700 PTB *dak ‘ARM / HAND’1e #702 PTB *g-yak ‘ARM / HAND / CUBIT’1f #705 PTB *p-yak ‘ARM’1g #350 PTB *la ‘LEG / FOOT’1h #375 PTB *ya ‘LEG / FOOT’1i #888 PTB *d-ya OR *g-ya ‘FOOT’-sor ‘finger’Matisoff 87 BP

Tibetan (Written)rakaṅmorpheme◦sor ‘toe’Marrison 67 Naga

Tibetan (Written)ser-mosuffix ‘finger’Matisoff 87 BP

Tibetan (Written)ser◦mosuffix ‘finger’Marrison 67 Naga

Tibetan (Written)sor-mosuffix ‘finger; toe’Matisoff 87 BP

Tibetan (Written)sor-tʻsigs#418 PTB *tsik ‘JOINT’PLB *ʔdzik ⪤ *ʔdzak ‘JOINT’ ‘joint of fingers; knuckle’Matisoff 87 BP

Tibetan (Written)z̀absmorpheme-sor ‘finger’Matisoff 87 BP

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #324, *s(w/y)ar ‘FINGER’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/324

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

References: incl 325

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-324,
  title  = {{*s(w/y)ar 'FINGER'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #324},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/324}
}