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STEDT #5357

*kharāyō

HARE / RABBIT
Indo-Aryan

Notes

The basic meaning of this root in Indo-Aryan was ‘donkey’ (khara-), with the word for the formerly exotic lagomorph ‘rabbit’ expressed by the Old Indo-Aryan compound kharabhaka- (lit. ‘long-eared like a donkey’) (Turner 1966). Tibeto-Burman languages have borrowed this IA etymon in both senses. Cf. Nepali kharāyō ‘rabbit’ (Schmidt 1993), the source of Newar kharāyo, as opposed to the meaning ‘donkey’ in many other TB languages.

The Guiqiong forms look like IA + Chinese hybrids. Cf. #5732 CH *luózi MULE.

Reflexes & cognates23 reflexes · 6 subgroups

1.1.1.1Western Tani4

Bokarku-ru ‘donkey’Sun J 93 Tani
Bokarku-ru ‘horse (5 years old)’Sun J 93 Tani

1.1.2Deng6

Darang [Taraon]gɯ³¹ɹɑu⁵⁵ n‘donkey’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0282.22
Darang [Taraon]gɯ³¹ɹɑu⁵⁵ ‘donkey’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 114.49
Kaman [Miju]gɯ³¹rɯu⁵⁵ ‘donkey’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 114.48
Kaman [Miju]gɯ³¹ɹɯu⁵⁵ n‘donkey’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0282.23
Idugɯ³¹ɹɑu⁵⁵ ‘donkey’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 114.50
Yidugɯ³¹ɹɑu⁵⁵ n‘donkey’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0282.25

2.1.2.1Tibetan2

Tibetan (Batang)kᴜ⁵⁵rᴜ⁵³ n‘donkey’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0282.03

2.2Newar1

Newarkharāyo ‘rabbit’Genetti 90 NeQ2

4Nungic2

Dulongku³¹ɹɯ⁵³ n‘donkey’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0282.20
Trung [Dulong]kɯ³¹ɹɯ⁵³ ‘donkey’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 114.46

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5357, *kharāyō ‘HARE / RABBIT’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5357
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: (Nepali, Schmidt s.v.)
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-5357,
  title  = {{*kharāyō 'HARE / RABBIT'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5357},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5357}
}