*uṣṭra-

CAMEL

Indo-Aryan · provisional

Notes

This Indo-Aryan loanword is set up as uṣṭra-, but the Tibeto-Burman forms are binomes from Sanskrit kúla- ‘Indian’ and uṣṭra- ‘camel’, with kúla- indicating that this is not a native word.

Reflexes & cognates11 reflexes · 9 subgroups

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)2

Ao (Chungli)ùút [ùə̄t] ‘camel’Loan from Assamese.Temsunungsang 09 Ao: 1a

Ao (Mongsen)ùút [ùə̄t] ‘camel’Loan from Assamese.Temsunungsang 09 Ao: 1a

1.7.1.1Bodo1

Bodoud ‘camel’< Bengali uṭa/ Assamese uṯBhat 68 Boro

1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang1

Phomot³¹ ‘camel’Burling 98 Phom

1.7.3.1Jingpho1

Jingphoko³³la³³uk⁵⁵ n‘camel’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0283.19

2.1.1Western Himalayish1

Kanauriūṭ n‘camel’Bailey 11

4Nungic1

Rawanggɔ³³ lɑ⁵³ wuʔ ‘camel’LaPolla 03: 325

6.1.1Burmish2

Burmese (Rangoon)ku⁵³lɑ⁵⁵oʔ⁴ n‘camel’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0283.27

Burmese (Written)ku¹lɑ³up⁴ n‘camel’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0283.26

6.1.2.2Central Loloish1

Lahu (Lancang)kɑ²¹lɑ²¹o⁵⁴ n‘camel’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0283.43

7Karenic1

Pa-Okəlà ʔòk ‘camel’Solnit 89 PaO

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5733, *uṣṭra- ‘CAMEL’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5733

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-5733,
  title  = {{*uṣṭra- 'CAMEL'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5733},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5733}
}