STEDT #45
*kruk ⪤ *s-gyuk
LEAN (MEAT)
Reconstruction analysis
handlegryuinitialgr(y)rhymeu-ksuffixkcoverK · VT
Connections
See alsoLEAN PERSON
Reflexes & cognates28 reflexes · 7 subgroups
1.1.1.1Western Tani6
Galokuː◦himorpheme kuː◦dor#52 NEIA *dwar ‘FLESH / MEAT / ANIMAL’ namorpheme kunamorpheme ‘lean’Das Gupta 63 Gal
2.1.2Bodic1
3.2Qiangic8
4Nungic2
6.1.2.1Northern Loloish4
6.1.2.2Central Loloish4
Lahu (Black)cɔ́ ‘slim, thin, slender (people)’This Lahu form probably descends from PLB *ʔgyuk; the high rising tone points to a doubly-glottalized prototype, while the initial c- is a regular reflex of PLB *gy-.Matisoff 88 DL: p. 488-9
8Bai3
Cite this entry
STEDT etymon #45,
*kruk ⪤ *s-gyuk ‘LEAN (MEAT)’.Stable link:
https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/45Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-45,
title = {{*kruk ⪤ *s-gyuk 'LEAN (MEAT)'}},
author = {STEDT},
year = {2017},
note = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #45},
url = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/45}
}