STEDT
STEDT #3439

*syan

TESTICLE / EGG

Reconstruction analysis

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Notes

This etymon is still not well established, with only scattered reflexes in Himalayish, Lolo-Burmese, Karenic, and Baic. The final nasal is reconstructed on the basis of the vowel nasalization in some Bai dialects.

Reflexes & cognates19 reflexes · 6 subgroups

2.1.5Dhimal1

Dhimalsyeq, syeq gulimorpheme ‘testicle’King 94 DhBP

2.3.4Western Kiranti1

Hayuseːthoŋmorpheme ‘testicle’It is possible that Hayu se: is rather < #1019 PTB *sey FRUIT / ROSE / ROUND OBJECT.Matisoff 87 BP

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish1

Nosusɿ²¹pa³³suffix ‘testicle’Chen 86 Yi: 10.3.5

8Bai12

Bai (Bijiang)sẽ̱⁴² ‘egg’Xu 84 Bai
Bai (Dali)kemorpheme 65 ‘egg (chicken)’Dell 81: 36
Bai (Dali)ke⁶morpheme sɛ⁵ ‘chicken egg’Dell 81: pp.150-169
Bai (Dali)se̱⁴² ‘egg’Xu 84 Bai
Bai (Dali) 5 ‘egg’Dell 81: 409
Bai (Jianchuan)(ke⁵⁵morpheme) sẽ̱²¹ n‘egg’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0450.48
Bai (Jianchuan)sẽ̱⁴² ‘egg’Xu 84 Bai
Bai (Jianchuan)sẽ̱⁴² ‘egg (of animal)’Zhao 90: 10.4.16

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #3439, *syan ‘TESTICLE / EGG’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3439
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-3439,
  title  = {{*syan 'TESTICLE / EGG'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #3439},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3439}
}