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STEDT #506

*s-dyar

CLAW
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

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Notes

The forms cited from Qiangic, rGyalrongic, and Nungic look like loans from Tibetan, especially since most of them closely resemble the Tibetan binome with the -mo suffix.

Reflexes & cognates29 reflexes · 9 subgroups

2.1.2Bodic4

Tshona (Wenlang)ter⁵⁵ mɑ⁵⁵suffix ‘claw’Lu 86 CuoM
Tshona (Mama)der¹³ mo⁵³suffix ‘claw’Sun H 80 MLD
Tshona (Mama)der¹³mo⁵³suffix ‘claw’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 174.6
Cuona Menbader³⁵mo⁵³suffix n‘claw / talon’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0307.06

2.1.2.1Tibetan12

Tibetan (Alike)rder mosuffix n‘claw / talon’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0307.05
Tibetan (Lhasa)ter¹³mo⁵⁵suffix n‘claw / talon’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0307.02
Tibetan (Lhasa)ter¹⁵mo¹³suffix ‘claw’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 174.2
Tibetan (Sherpa:Helambu)ter◦singmorpheme ‘claw (of animal)’Bishop 89: 7.4.3
Tibetan (Written)sder mosuffix n‘claw / talon’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0307.01
Tibetan (Written)sder-mosuffix ‘talon / claw’Matisoff 87 BP
Tibetan (Written)sder.mosuffix ‘claw’Sun J 85 TbGl: 137
Tibetan (Xiahe)der mosuffix n‘claw / talon’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0307.04

2.1.4Tamangish1

Manang (Gyaru)dar² ma²suffix ‘claw’Nagano 84 Man: 313

2.3.4Western Kiranti3

Thulung'der ‘nail, claw, hoof’Allen 75
Thulungder ‘claw’Matisoff 87 BP

3.2Qiangic2

Guiqiongde³⁵mu̵⁵⁵suffix n‘claw / talon’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0307.16
Muyade³³mə⁵³suffix n‘claw / talon’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0307.15

3.3rGyalrongic1

Daofuzder mosuffix n‘claw / talon’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0307.12

4Nungic3

Trung [Dulong]deʴ⁵⁵mu⁵⁵morpheme ‘claw’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 174.46
Trung [Dulong] (Dulonghe)deɹ⁵⁵ mu⁵⁵morpheme ‘claw’Sun H 82 Dul
Trung [Dulong] (Nujiang)tɔm³¹morpheme deɹ⁵⁵ ‘claw’Sun H 82 Dul

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish2

Lalodɪ̱²¹ ‘claw (of animal)’Chen 86 Yi: 7.4.3

6.1.2.2Central Loloish1

Ahide̱²¹ ‘claw’Chen 86 Yi: 7.4.3

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #506, *s-dyar ‘CLAW’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/506
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-506,
  title  = {{*s-dyar 'CLAW'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #506},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/506}
}