STEDT #3577
*s-ŋʷ(y)a-t
STAR / MOON
Intermediate reconstructions
Lolo-Burmese*mwatᴸ ‘START / MOON’
Connections
HPTB*s-ŋʷ(y)a-t ‘star / moon’pp. 24, 26, 85, 332, 335
Notes
For detailed discussion of this etymology, see Matisoff 1980 (“Stars, Moon, and Spirits”).
Chinese comparandum
月 OC *ngi̯wɑ̆t, GSR #306a-f; B & S 2011: *ŋʷat {[ŋ]ʷat}; Mand. yuè.
Reflexes & cognates32 reflexes · 11 subgroups
0Sino-Tibetan (previously published reconstructions)2
0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)2
1.3.2Angami-Pochuri Group6
1.3.4Tangkhulic1
2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang4
6.1Lolo-Burmese2
6.1.2.2Central Loloish7
Lahumə̀ʔ(-kə#3574 PTB *g(r/l)aːy ‘SCATTER / SOW / DISPERSED WIDELY / WIDE / STAR’PKC *kraay ‘SCATTER’PrGy *tsu-gray ‘STAR’PLB *ʔ-grəy¹ ‘STAR’PL *C-gray¹ ‘STAR’PKar *lɛᴮ ‘WIDE’) ‘star(-moon)’LaPolla 87: 189
Lahu (Lancang)mɤ²¹kɤ³³#3574 PTB *g(r/l)aːy ‘SCATTER / SOW / DISPERSED WIDELY / WIDE / STAR’PKC *kraay ‘SCATTER’PrGy *tsu-gray ‘STAR’PLB *ʔ-grəy¹ ‘STAR’PL *C-gray¹ ‘STAR’PKar *lɛᴮ ‘WIDE’ n‘star’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0005.43
Lahu (Black)mə²¹kə³³#3574 PTB *g(r/l)aːy ‘SCATTER / SOW / DISPERSED WIDELY / WIDE / STAR’PKC *kraay ‘SCATTER’PrGy *tsu-gray ‘STAR’PLB *ʔ-grəy¹ ‘STAR’PL *C-gray¹ ‘STAR’PKar *lɛᴮ ‘WIDE’ ‘star’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 4.33
Lahu (Black)mə̀ʔ(-kə#3574 PTB *g(r/l)aːy ‘SCATTER / SOW / DISPERSED WIDELY / WIDE / STAR’PKC *kraay ‘SCATTER’PrGy *tsu-gray ‘STAR’PLB *ʔ-grəy¹ ‘STAR’PL *C-gray¹ ‘STAR’PKar *lɛᴮ ‘WIDE’) ‘star’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 035
Lahu (Black)mə̀ʔ-kə#3574 PTB *g(r/l)aːy ‘SCATTER / SOW / DISPERSED WIDELY / WIDE / STAR’PKC *kraay ‘SCATTER’PrGy *tsu-gray ‘STAR’PLB *ʔ-grəy¹ ‘STAR’PL *C-gray¹ ‘STAR’PKar *lɛᴮ ‘WIDE’ ‘star’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 163
Lahu (Black)mə̀ʔ-kə#3574 PTB *g(r/l)aːy ‘SCATTER / SOW / DISPERSED WIDELY / WIDE / STAR’PKC *kraay ‘SCATTER’PrGy *tsu-gray ‘STAR’PLB *ʔ-grəy¹ ‘STAR’PL *C-gray¹ ‘STAR’PKar *lɛᴮ ‘WIDE’ ‘star’Matisoff 74 TJLB: 49
Lahu (Yellow)mv̩³kɤ¹#3574 PTB *g(r/l)aːy ‘SCATTER / SOW / DISPERSED WIDELY / WIDE / STAR’PKC *kraay ‘SCATTER’PrGy *tsu-gray ‘STAR’PLB *ʔ-grəy¹ ‘STAR’PL *C-gray¹ ‘STAR’PKar *lɛᴮ ‘WIDE’ɕi⁵#1019 PTB *sey ‘FRUIT / ROSE / ROUND OBJECT’PTani *ze ‘FRUIT’PKC *thay ‘FRUIT’PKC *ʔaar-θii ⪤ *-sii ‘STAR’PCN *a-sej ‘FRUIT / SEED’PTk *tʰej ‘FRUIT’PKar *saᴮ ‘FRUIT’ ‘star’Chang 86
9Sinitic3
9.0.1Old Chinese5
9.0.2Middle Chinese2
9.0.3Modern Chinese4
Cite this entry
STEDT etymon #3577,
*s-ŋʷ(y)a-t ‘STAR / MOON’.Stable link:
https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3577Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. HPTB pp. 24, 26, 85, 332, 335
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-3577,
title = {{*s-ŋʷ(y)a-t 'STAR / MOON'}},
author = {STEDT},
year = {2017},
note = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #3577},
url = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3577}
}