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*krakᴴ

CROSSBOW
Proto-Lolo-Burmese · provisional

Reflexes & cognates48 reflexes · 4 subgroups

6.1Lolo-Burmese2

6.1.2Loloish1

*Loloishkrakᴴ ‘crossbow’Bradley 79 PLo: 265

6.1.2.2Central Loloish29

Lahu (Black)khâʔ ‘crossbow’Matisoff 72 LTSR: 9
Lahu (Black)khâʔ-le#517 PTB *m/s-la(ː)y ‘NAVEL / CENTER / SELF’MesorootsPKC *laay ‘CENTER / MIDDLE / NAVEL’PCN *ph-laj ‘NAVEL, BELLY BUTTON’PTk *laj ‘NAVEL’Allofams40 #518 PTB *m/s-la(ː)y ⪤ *s-tay ‘NAVEL’40a #517 PTB *m/s-la(ː)y ‘NAVEL / CENTER / SELF’40b #519 PTB *s-tay ‘NAVEL / ABDOMEN / CENTER / SELF’ n.‘trigger of crossbow’The trigger is, as it were, the navel of a gun or crossbow. See Matisoff 1988, The Dictionary of Lahu, p. 1373.Matisoff 88 DL: p.369
Lahu (Yellow)kha⁶ ‘crossbow’Chang 86
Lisuhchya2 ‘crossbow’Matisoff 72 LTSR: 9
Lisu (Central)hchyá² n.‘crossbow’Fraser 22
Lisu (Central)hchya² ‘crossbow’Fraser 22
Lisu (Northern)tɕhæ³⁵ N‘crossbow’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)tɕhæ³⁵ thi²¹morpheme ka⁵⁵morpheme ‘crossbow’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)tɕhæ³⁵gu²¹morpheme ‘frame of crossbow; handle of crossbow’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)tɕhæ³⁵hĩ³³morpheme ‘string of crosssbow; cord of crossbow; string of bow’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)tɕhæ³⁵khɤ²¹morpheme ‘crossbow mechanism’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)tɕhæ³⁵pe⁵⁵morpheme ‘ground crossbow’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)tɕhæ³⁵phi²¹morpheme ‘back of crossbow; back of bow’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)tɕhæ³⁵pu⁵⁵morpheme ‘crossbow arrow quiver’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Central)tɕhæ³⁵py⁵⁵morpheme ‘ground crossbow’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)tɕhæ³⁵pø⁵⁵morpheme ‘bits of things used in cutting a crossbow’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)tɕhæ³⁵si³⁵morpheme ‘mulberry wood crossbow (extended meaning: man)’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)tɕhæ³⁵sɤ³⁵morphemedzi³³#6123 PTB *dziŋ ‘PLANT (n.) / TREE’ ‘grind-crossbow-tree (tree with hard abrasive leaves good for polishing wooden objects and crossbows)’Bradley 94 Lisu
Yi (Sani)tɕhe³³ n‘bow (for arrow)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0636.39

6.1.2.3Southern Loloish19

Akhaka HS ‘crossbow’Matisoff 72 LTSR: 9
Akha (Thai)kaq təqmorpheme ‘crossbow’Hansson 89 AHKP: 447
Akha (Thai)kaq-təqmorpheme ‘crossbow’Hansson 89 AHKP: 574
Hani (Lüchun)kaq təqmorpheme ‘crossbow’Hansson 89 AHKP: 574
Hani (Lüchun)kha màmorpheme ‘crossbow arrow’Hansson 89 AHKP: 44
Hani (Kao Hua-Nien)kʻa 55 pəmorpheme 55 ‘crossbow’Matisoff 72 LTSR: 9
Hani (Lüchun)ka̱³³tɤ̱³³morpheme n‘bow (for arrow)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0636.41
Hani (Wordlist)gav◦devmorpheme ‘crossbow’Hansson 89 AHKP: 574
Hani (Shuikui)kha³³tv̩⁵⁵morpheme ‘arrow’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 428.32
Hani (Mojiang)kha³³mv̩³¹morpheme n‘bow (for arrow)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0636.42
Wonikʻa 33 ‘crossbow’Matisoff 72 LTSR: 9

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5678, *krakᴴ ‘CROSSBOW’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5678
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: HPTB:596
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-5678,
  title  = {{*krakᴴ 'CROSSBOW'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5678},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5678}
}