*yāzi

DUCK

Notes

This is a Mandarin loan which appears in a number of Tibeto-Burman languages. Other areal words for DUCK that have been borrowed into TB are Indo-Aryan #5716 IA *battakh DUCK, Nepali #5717 IA *hā̩s DUCK, and Austro-Tai #5713 PLB *bay¹/² DUCK.

Reflexes & cognates21 reflexes · 7 subgroups

Guiqiongjɑ⁵⁵tsɿ⁵⁵ ‘duck’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 138.17

Muya [Minyak]jɑ³⁵tsɯ⁵³ ‘duck’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 138.15

Qiang (Longxi)ià tsɨ̀ ‘duck {b}’Evans 99 Qiang: 372

Qiang (Mawo)jats ‘duck’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 138.8

Qiang (Mawo)jɑs n‘duck’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0300.08

Qiang (Mianchi)iá tsɨ̀ ~ ià tsɨ̀ ‘duck {b}’Evans 99 Qiang: 372

Qiang (Taoping)iɑ³³tsɿ³¹ ‘duck’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 138.9

Queyu (Yajiang) [Zhaba]ja³⁵tsi⁵³ ‘duck’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 138.16

3.3rGyalrongic1

Daofujɑ dzə n‘duck’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0300.12

3.3.1rGyalrong2

rGyalrong (Maerkang)jɑ tsə n‘duck (domestic)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0300.11

rGBenzhenja-tsə ‘duck’Sun J 97 rGB

5Tujia1

Tujia (Southern)jia⁵⁵tsi²¹ ‘duck’Tian 86

9.0.3Modern Chinese1

Chinese (Mandarin)yatz (yiee) ‘duck (wild)’Sun J 85 ChGl: 205

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5718, *yāzi ‘DUCK’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5718

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-5718,
  title  = {{*yāzi 'DUCK'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5718},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5718}
}