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STEDT #5674

*s-ga

SADDLE / HARNESS
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Notes

Many of these forms are probably loans from Tibetan. As is well known, the horse was first domesticated in Central Asia.

Chinese comparandum

A connection with Chinese 駕 ‘harness, draw (as a cart)’, [OC *kɑ GSR #15e-f; Mand. jià] is suggested in LaPolla (1987:20).

Reflexes & cognates39 reflexes · 12 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)2

*Tibeto-Burmans-ga ‘saddle / harness’Matisoff 83 TIL: 60
*Tibeto-Burmans-ga ‘saddle’[Source note] [Matisoff 1983, set 60] (LaPolla 1987).LaPolla 87: 20

1.1.1.1Western Tani3

Bokar*teːmorpheme-gə ‘saddle’Sun J 93 Tani
Bokarteːmorpheme◦gə n‘saddle’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0588.24
Bokar Lhobatɛːmorpheme gə ‘saddle’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 431.51

1.1.2Deng2

Idugɑ⁵⁵dʑɑ⁵⁵morpheme ‘saddle’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 431.50
Yidugɑ⁵⁵dʑɑ⁵⁵morpheme n‘saddle’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0588.25

2.1.1Western Himalayish2

Kanauriẕẖgā n‘saddle’Bailey 11
Pattani [Manchati]tʃimorpheme◦ga ‘saddle’Sharma, D.D. 82 TH

3.3rGyalrongic2

6.1.2Loloish1

PNLs-ga ‘saddle’Chen 86 CS: 178.

9.0.1Old Chinese1

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5674, *s-ga ‘SADDLE / HARNESS’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5674
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: Matisoff 83 TIL:60
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-5674,
  title  = {{*s-ga 'SADDLE / HARNESS'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5674},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5674}
}