*k-lip

TURTLE / TORTOISE

Intermediate reconstructions

Karenic*kliɁᴰ ‘TORTOISE’TL#309

Chinese comparandum

獵 OC *li̯ɑp, GSR #637e; Mand. liè.

Citations of 獵 ‘tortoise; turtle’ are seen in 爾雅 Er Ya and 周禮 Zhou Li. While it doesn’t affect the validity of the comparandum, we should point out that the character 獵 most often represents a different etymon in OC, i.e. ‘to hunt (prey)’ (GSR #637e); this is the only commonly recognized sense of 獵 liè in modern standard Chinese. Karlgren (GSR #637e) notes that 獵 liè, when used to mean ‘turtle’, is a phonetic loan for another character, now obsolete, perhaps attested as the Zhou dynasty pictograph shown in GSR #637b. [SPB]

Reflexes & cognates16 reflexes · 4 subgroups

1.7.3.2Asakian1

Saktəprefix◦liʔ ‘turtle’Huziwara 08 Sak: 305a

6.1.1Burmish1

Burmese (Written)lip ‘tortoise, turtle’Benedict 76 WBur

7Karenic16

*Karen [Burling]khliɁ² ‘tortoise’Luangthongkum 13: 309

*Karenkhlɛ́ʔ ‘turtle’Jones 61: 89

*KarenkliɁᴰ ‘tortoise’Luangthongkum 13: 309

Bwekhli³³ ‘tortoise’Luangthongkum 13: 309

Kayahkhli⁵⁵ ‘tortoise’Luangthongkum 13: 309

KayankhlɨɁ⁴⁵ ‘tortoise’Luangthongkum 13: 309

Kayan (Pekon)kʰlù N‘turtle’Manson 10 Kayan

Kayan (Pekon)kʰù N‘turtle’Manson 10 Kayan

Kayawkhli³³ ‘tortoise’Luangthongkum 13: 309

Pa-O (Northern)kleɁ²¹ ‘tortoise’Luangthongkum 13: 309

Pa-Okléʔ ‘turtle’Solnit 89 PaO

Pa-O (Southern)kliɁ²¹ ‘tortoise’Luangthongkum 13: 309

Pwo (Northern)khlaiɁ⁴⁵ ‘tortoise’Luangthongkum 13: 309

Pwo (Southern)khlaiɁ³¹ ‘tortoise’Luangthongkum 13: 309

Sgaw (Southern)khlaiɁ²¹ ‘tortoise’Luangthongkum 13: 309

Sgaw (Northern)khliɁ⁴⁵ ‘tortoise’Luangthongkum 13: 309

9.0.1Old Chinese1

Chinese (Old/Mid)li̯ɑp/li̯ɑ̈p ‘turtle (kind of)’Karlgren 57 GSR: 637e

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5604, *k-lip ‘TURTLE / TORTOISE’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5604

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

References: JAM

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-5604,
  title  = {{*k-lip 'TURTLE / TORTOISE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5604},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5604}
}