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STEDT #451

*m-dan

CROSSBOW
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

prefixminitialdrhymean

Reflexes & cognates13 reflexes · 7 subgroups

0Sino-Tibetan (previously published reconstructions)1

*Sino-Tibetan(m-)dɑːn ‘shoot pellets / pellet of crossbow’Chou 72: 147n

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

1.7.3.1Jingpho4

Jingphondɑn ‘crossbow’Chou 72: 147n
Jingphon̩³¹tan³³ ‘bow (weapon)’Liu 84
Jingphon³¹tan³³ n‘bow (for arrow)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0636.19
Jingphon³¹tan³³ ‘bow (weapon)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 427.47

9.0.1Old Chinese3

Chinese (Old/Mid)dʻɑ̂n ‘shoot pellets / pellet of crossbow’Chou 72: 147n
Chinese (Old)Cəprefix.dˤar-s {Cə.[d]ˤar-s} ‘pellet’BaxterSagart 2011: 477
Chinese (Old)dˤar {(Cə.)[d]ˤar} ‘shoot pellets’BaxterSagart 2011: 2725

9.0.2Middle Chinese2

9.0.3Modern Chinese2

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #451, *m-dan ‘CROSSBOW’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/451
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. STC p.190, HPTB pp.301, 310
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-451,
  title  = {{*m-dan 'CROSSBOW'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #451},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/451}
}