*ruak

EMPTY / NAKED / VOID

Proto-Kuki-Chin · provisional

Chinese comparandum

裸 OC *glwɑ̂r, GSR #351g-h ‘naked’; Schuessler 2007:371 *rôiʔ; B & S 2011: *rˁorʔ {rˁo[r]ʔ}; Mand. luǒ.

Reflexes & cognates5 reflexes · 3 subgroups

1.2Kuki-Chin1

*Chinruak VanBik 09 PKC: 936

1.2.1.1Northern Chin2

Thadogûoʔ tsâŋ ‘naked’VanBik 09 PKC: 936

Tiddimguak¹ tang² ‘naked’VanBik 09 PKC: 936

1.2.2Central Chin3

Lushai [Mizo]ruak ‘empty’Marrison 67 Naga

Lushai [Mizo]ruak ‘naked; empty; hollow’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 380

Lushai [Mizo]rûak-I, rùah-II be v.‘empty, vacant, unoccupied, to be naked or nude’VanBik 09 PKC: 936

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #4936, *ruak ‘EMPTY / NAKED / VOID’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/4936

Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].

References: PKC #936

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-4936,
  title  = {{*ruak 'EMPTY / NAKED / VOID'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #4936},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/4936}
}