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STEDT #374

*tal

CHARCOAL / DUST / ASHES
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · provisional

Reconstruction analysis

initialtrhymeal

Chinese comparandum

炭 OC *tʼɑ̂n, GSR #151a ‘coal, charcoal; lime’; Coblin 86:68 ST *thal > OC *thanh; Schuessler 2007:491 *thâns; B & S 2011: *tʰˁan-s {[tʰ]ˁa[n]-s}; Mand. tàn.

Reflexes & cognates23 reflexes · 4 subgroups

0Sino-Tibetan (previously published reconstructions)1

*Sino-Tibetanthal ‘dust / ashes’Coblin 86: 68

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmantal ‘charcoal / dust / ashes’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 614

2.1.2.1Tibetan20

Tibetan (Amdo:Zeku)wərmorpheme tʰa ‘ashes (of bones)’Sun J 85 Amdo: 28
Tibetan (Balti)ṯʰʌl◦ba·suffix ‘ashes’Rangan 75: 25
Tibetan (Sherpa)'thal◦dummorpheme ‘ash’Hale 73 CSD: 01.083
Tibetan (Sherpa)'thal◦ǰummorpheme ‘ash’Hale 73 CSD: 01.083
Tibetan (Written)gomorpheme thal n‘plant ash’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0063.01
Tibetan (Written)gomorpheme thal ‘ashes’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 472.1
Tibetan (Written)gogmorpheme-thal ‘ashes’Benedict 72 STC: 40n131
Tibetan (Written)gogmorpheme◦thal ‘ashes’Marrison 67 Naga
Tibetan (Written)purmorpheme.thal ‘ashes (of bones)’Sun J 85 TbGl: 28
Tibetan (Written)rdomorpheme thal ‘lime’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 356.1
Tibetan (Written)samorpheme.thal ‘dust-shower (special natural phenomenon)’Sun J 85 TbGl: 774
Tibetan (Written)thal-bamorpheme ‘dust / ashes’Chou 72: 151a
Tibetan (Written)thal-bamorpheme ‘dust, ashes’Benedict 72 STC: 173n461
Tibetan (Written)thal.bamorpheme ‘dust’Sun J 85 TbGl: 206
Tibetan (Written)thal.bamorpheme ‘ashes’Sun J 85 TbGl: 27
Tibetan (Written)thal◦bamorpheme ‘ashes’Marrison 67 Naga
Tibetan (Written)thal◦bamorpheme n‘dust’Marrison 67 Naga

9.0.1Old Chinese3

Chinese (Old/Mid)tʻɑ̂n ‘coal, charcoal, lime’Chou 72: 151a
Chinese (Old/Mid)tʼɑ̂n/tʼɑn- ‘coal / charcoal;lime’Karlgren 57 GSR: 151a
Chinese (Old)thans ‘charcoal’Baxter 92: 195

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #374, *tal ‘CHARCOAL / DUST / ASHES’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/374
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: HPTB p.422
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-374,
  title  = {{*tal 'CHARCOAL / DUST / ASHES'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #374},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/374}
}