STEDT
STEDT #5459

*gram

NET / BAMBOO SCREEN

Notes

See Gong 2001:26. The Chinese comparandum is not to be found in GSR #609.

Chinese comparandum

OC [not in GSR #609]; B & S 2011: *k.rˁam; Mand. lán. 609g

Reflexes & cognates5 reflexes · 4 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

6.1.1Burmish2

Burmese (Written)krâm ‘bamboo net’This word is glossed “weighted bamboo screen, pushed to drive fish into a weir” (Myanmar-English Dictionary 1993:45).Benedict 76 WBur

7Karenic2

Pa-Okhrɛ̀, morphemekhrɛ̀ ‘net’Solnit 89 PaO
Pa-Owānmorpheme khrɛ̀, wānmorpheme morphemekhrɛ̀ ‘cast a net’Solnit 89 PaO

9.0.1Old Chinese1

Chinese (Old)glam ‘basket’[Source note] Not in GSR #609.Matisoff 03 HPTB: 299

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5459, *gram ‘NET / BAMBOO SCREEN’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5459
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. HPTB p. 299
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-5459,
  title  = {{*gram 'NET / BAMBOO SCREEN'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5459},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5459}
}