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*grwas

SPEAK / WORD
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Notes

The Tibetan-Chinese comparison is due to Gong 2001:28.

Chinese comparandum

曰 OC *gi̯wɑ̆t, GSR #304a-d ‘say’; Schuessler 2007:595 *wat; B & S 2011: *ɢʷat {[ɢ]ʷat}; Mand. yuē.
話 OC *g’wɑd, GSR #302o ‘speak, word’; Schuessler 2007:283 *gwrâ(t)s or *grô(t)s; B & S 2011: *gʷˤrat-s {[g]ʷˤrat-s}; Mand. huà.

Reflexes & cognates6 reflexes · 6 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmangrwas ‘speak / word’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 591

2.1.2.1Tibetan1

Tibetan (Written)gros sdurmorpheme bjedmorpheme v.‘consult / discuss’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1608.01

9Sinitic2

9.0.1Old Chinese1

Chinese (Old)gʷˤrat-s {[g]ʷˤrat-s} ‘speak; words’BaxterSagart 2011: 1107

9.0.2Middle Chinese1

9.0.3Modern Chinese1

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5393, *grwas ‘SPEAK / WORD’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5393
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. HPTB p. 437
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-5393,
  title  = {{*grwas 'SPEAK / WORD'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5393},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5393}
}