STEDT
STEDT #5495

*s-ray

PLURALIZER

Intermediate reconstructions

Tangkhulic*rwo ‘PLURAL’DRM#666

Connections

Notes

This etymon is a specialization of the ST copular morpheme #1821 PTB *s/g-ray ⪤ *way BE / COPULA / NOMINALIZER / SUBORDINATOR / GOD, an etymon which is discussed at length in Matisoff 1985a (59-64) (GSTC).

Reflexes & cognates27 reflexes · 9 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)2

*Tibeto-Burmans-ray ‘plural / everything’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 186

1.2.3Maraic1

Lakher [Mara]hrai ‘plural affix for denoting company, etc.’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 186

1.3.4Tangkhulic3

Huishuʔumorpheme-ju ‘1pl, we’Mortensen 12 Tk: Pronouns.007
Tusomʔəmorpheme-ru ‘1pl’Mortensen 12 Tk: Pronouns.007

1.5Mikir [Karbi]1

Mikir [Karbi]hǎy ‘plural of non-animate nouns’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 186

1.7.1.1Bodo7

Bodoranmorpheme-sray ‘distribute everything’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 186
Bodoranmorphemesray v‘distribute everything’Bhat 68 Boro
Bodosray v.‘V everything’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 186
Bodozankrimorpheme-sray ‘shake everything’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 186
Bodozankrímorphemesray v‘shake everthing’Bhat 68 Boro
Bodozamorphemesráy v‘eat everything’Bhat 68 Boro

3.3.1rGyalrong1

Caodeng-rɐʔ ‘plural suffix’Sun J 97 Cao

6.1.2.2Central Loloish10

Lahu (Black) ‘pluralizer, esp. of personal pronouns’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 186

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5495, *s-ray ‘PLURALIZER’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5495
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. HPTB pp. 209, 212
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-5495,
  title  = {{*s-ray 'PLURALIZER'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5495},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5495}
}