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STEDT #5566

*s-pra

MONKEY

Notes

This morpheme has so far only been attested in Tibetan dialects.

Reflexes & cognates22 reflexes · 2 subgroups

2.1.2Bodic4

Tshona (Wenlang)prɑ⁵⁵ ‘monkey’Lu 86 CuoM

Tshona (Mama)prᴀ⁵³ ‘monkey’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 128.6

Cuona Menbapra⁵³ n‘monkey’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0308.06

Cuona Menbapra⁵³wu³¹morpheme n‘year of the monkey’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0763.06

2.1.2.1Tibetan18

Tibetan (Alike)rpi n‘monkey’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0308.05

Tibetan (Lhasa)piu⁵⁵ n‘monkey’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0308.02

Tibetan (Lhasa)piu⁵⁵ ‘monkey’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 128.2

Tibetan (Written)spra ‘monkey (generic)’Marrison 67 Naga

Tibetan (Written)spra ‘langur’Sun J 85 TbGl: 430

Tibetan (Written)spre ‘monkey (grayish yellow brown’Jäschke 1881

Tibetan (Written)spré-mo#1620 PTB *mow ‘WOMAN / FEMALE RELATIVE / FEMININE SUFFIX’PKC *maw ‘BRIDE / GROOM’PKar *muᴮ ‘FEMALE (HUMANS), MOTHER’ ‘monkey (female)’Jäschke 1881

Tibetan (Written)spre-pʻrúgmorpheme ‘monkey (young)’Jäschke 1881

Tibetan (Written)sprel n‘year of the monkey’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0763.01

Tibetan (Written)spreu.? ‘monkey’Sun J 85 TbGl: 594

Tibetan (Written)spreu.zla#1016 PTB *s/g-la ‘MOON / MONTH’PTani *po-lo ‘MOON’PKC *khlaa ‘MOON / MONTH’PNN *gla poy ‘MOON’TGTM *ᴮHla ‘MOON’TGTM *ᴮʰla ‘MONTH’PKir *la ‘MOON’PLB *s/ʔ-la³ ‘MOON / MONTH’PL *bə la³ ‘MOON’PKar *Ɂlaᴬ ‘MOON, MONTH’ ‘December’Sun J 85 TbGl: 600

Tibetan (Written)spre◦usuffix ‘monkey (grayish yellow brown,’Jäschke 1881

Tibetan (Written)spre◦usuffix-z̀ɑ́rmorpheme-mɑmorpheme ‘monkey (blind female)’Jäschke 1881

Tibetan (Written)spre◦ɦusuffix n‘monkey’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0308.01

Tibetan (Written)spre◦ɦusuffix ‘monkey’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 128.1

Tibetan (Written)sprɑ ‘monkey (large, dark-gray, long’Jäschke 1881

Tibetan (Written)sprɑ́-mo#1620 PTB *mow ‘WOMAN / FEMALE RELATIVE / FEMININE SUFFIX’PKC *maw ‘BRIDE / GROOM’PKar *muᴮ ‘FEMALE (HUMANS), MOTHER’ ‘monkey (female)’Jäschke 1881

Tibetan (Written)sprɑ-pʻrúgmorpheme ‘monkey (young)’Jäschke 1881

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5566, *s-pra ‘MONKEY’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5566

Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].

References: JAM

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-5566,
  title  = {{*s-pra 'MONKEY'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5566},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5566}
}