STEDT
STEDT #40

*s-ryak

OIL / FAT / GREASE
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · exemplary

Reconstruction analysis

handleryakprefixsinitialryrhymeakcoverL · T

Connections

HPTB*s-ryak ‘grease / oil’pp. 323, 327

Chinese comparandum

OC *zi̯ɑk, GSR #800n-o; Baxter 92: *(l)jAk; B & S 2011: *N.rak {N.rAk}; Mand. .

Reflexes & cognates41 reflexes · 16 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)4

*Tibeto-Burmanryak ‘grease, oil, juice’Benedict 72 STC: 204
*Tibeto-Burmanryak ‘fluid / juice / grease’Coblin 86: 82
*Tibeto-Burmanryɑk ‘grease / oil / juice’Chou 72: 800n-o
*Tibeto-Burmans-ryak ‘grease / oil’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 611

1.2.2Central Chin4

1.3“Naga” Areal Group3

Maringsarik n‘fat’Marrison 67 Naga
Maringsarik, tharik ‘oil’Marrison 67 Naga
Maringtʰrik ‘oil’Brown 37 Indo

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)1

Lotha Nagaēprefixšə̀k> ‘oil, castor’Acharya 75

1.7.2Northern Naga/Konyakian1

2.1.2Bodic7

Baimaʑø³⁴¹ ‘oil / grease (for cooking)’Sun H 91 Baim: 8.3.2
Tsangla (Motuo)dʑakpasuffix ‘fat (of humans)’Sun H 80 MLD
Tsangla (Motuo)dʑakpasuffix ‘fat (of people)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 849.7
Tsangla (Motuo)dʑakpasuffix ‘fat (meat)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 850.7
Tsangla (Motuo)tɕak¹³ pa⁵⁵suffix ‘fat (person)’Zhang Jichuan 86
Tsangla (Motuo)tɕak¹³ pa⁵⁵suffix ‘fat (meat)’Zhang Jichuan 86
Tshona (Wenlang)dʑɑk³⁵ pɑ⁵⁵suffix ‘fat (person)’Lu 86 CuoM

2.1.3Lepcha1

Lepchasók ‘fat / oil / grease’Matisoff 87 BP

2.3.1Eastern Kiranti2

3.3rGyalrongic1

Ergong (Northern)vɟjak¹³ ‘full / be satiated’Sun H 91 ErNQ: 3.7.10

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish1

Yi (Nanjian)ʐu⁵⁵ ɣɯ⁵⁵morpheme ‘fat, oil’Chen 85 YiJZ

9Sinitic1

"Pre-Chinese"riak ‘fluid / juice / grease’Coblin 86: 81

9.0.1Old Chinese3

Chinese (Old/Mid)zi̯ɑk/i̯ɑ̈k ‘fluid / moisture’Chou 72: 800n-o
Chinese (Old)(l)jAk ‘fluid / liquid’Baxter 92: 1851
Chinese (Old)rak ‘fluid / juice / grease’Coblin 86: 81

9.0.2Middle Chinese1

Chinese (Middle)jiak ‘fluid, liquid’Coblin 86: 81

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #40, *s-ryak ‘OIL / FAT / GREASE’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/40
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. STC#204, HPTB pp.323, 327; incl 309
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-40,
  title  = {{*s-ryak 'OIL / FAT / GREASE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #40},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/40}
}