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STEDT #57

*(g/k)raŋ

MEASURE / COUNT
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Connections

HPTB*graŋ ⪤ *kraŋ ‘measure / count’p. 303

Chinese comparandum

量 OC *li̯ɑng, GSR #737a ‘measure’; B & S 2011: *raŋ {[r]aŋ}; Mand. liáng ‘measure (v.)’.
量 OC *li̯ɑng, GSR #737a ‘measure’; B & S 2011: *raŋ-s {[r]aŋ-s}; Mand. liàng ‘measure (n.)’.

Reflexes & cognates23 reflexes · 9 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmangraŋ ⪤ kraŋ ‘measure / count’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 591

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)8

*Aoaprefix-zəŋ ‘COUNT / READ’Bruhn 14 PCN: II.131
Ao (Chungli)a³prefix-zəŋ¹ v.‘read’Bruhn 14 PCN: II.131
Ao (Chungli)aprefix◦jüng v‘count’Marrison 67 Naga
Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)zə̀ŋ v.‘count [counted]’Coupe 07 Ao
Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)zə̀ŋ v.‘read (cf. 'counted')’Coupe 07 Ao

2.1.2.1Tibetan2

2.3.3Central Kiranti1

Khaling'khran-nemorpheme v‘count’Hale 73 CSD: 10b2.22

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish3

Nusu (Southern)xɹɯ³¹ ‘count’Sun J 86 Nusu
Nusu (Central)xɹɯ³¹ v.‘count (numbers)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1640.34

9.0.1Old Chinese2

Chinese (Old)raŋ {[r]aŋ} v.‘measure’BaxterSagart 2011: 1714
Chinese (Old)raŋ-ssuffix {[r]aŋ-s} n.‘measure’BaxterSagart 2011: 1718

9.0.2Middle Chinese2

9.0.3Modern Chinese2

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #57, *(g/k)raŋ ‘MEASURE / COUNT’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/57
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-57,
  title  = {{*(g/k)raŋ 'MEASURE / COUNT'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #57},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/57}
}