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STEDT #4641

*sial

BUFFALO / BISON / MITHUN
Proto-Kuki-Chin

Chinese comparandum

兕 OC *dzi̯ər, GSR #556a ‘water buffalo; rhinoceros’; Schuessler 2007:479 *s-jəiʔ; B & S 2011: *s.ɢijʔ {[s.ɢ]ijʔ}; Mand. sì.

Reflexes & cognates18 reflexes · 5 subgroups

1.2Kuki-Chin1

1.2.1.1Northern Chin4

Thadosíel ‘buffalo, bison’VanBik 09 PKC: 641
Tiddimsial² ‘mithun’VanBik 09 PKC: 641
Tiddimzaːng²morpheme sial² ‘wild Mithun’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 2011

1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin7

1.2.3Maraic2

Lakher [Mara]sì ⪤ sèi ‘baffalo’VanBik 09 PKC: 641
Lakher [Mara]³sə ‘animal / meat(1) / cattle(1) / deer(1)’Weidert 87 TBTo: 41

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #4641, *sial ‘BUFFALO / BISON / MITHUN’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/4641
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: PKC #641
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-4641,
  title  = {{*sial 'BUFFALO / BISON / MITHUN'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #4641},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/4641}
}