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*s/m-kwar

ROUND
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · provisional

Notes

This etymon may well be related to #665 PTB *kwar HOLE / ORIFICE / INNARDS, the common core of meaning perhaps residing in the round appearance of many holes.

Chinese comparandum

果 OC *klwɑ̂r, GSR #351a-b ‘fruit; result; as a result’; Schuessler 2007:269 *kôiʔ; B & S 2011: *kˁorʔ {[k]ˁo[r]ʔ}; Mand. guǒ.

Reflexes & cognates31 reflexes · 10 subgroups

1.1.1.1Western Tani1

Miri, Hillgomorpheme◦kɯr ‘round, encircle’Simon 76 Miri

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)1

Lotha Nagan̩¹prefix-kon¹- be v.‘round’Bruhn 14 SuppCN

2.1.2Bodic2

Tshona (Wenlang)gor³⁵pɑ⁵⁵suffix ‘round’Lu 86 CuoM
Cuona Menbakhor⁵⁵ro⁵⁵morphemeja³⁵morpheme v.‘turn (round and round)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1808.06

2.1.2.1Tibetan17

Tibetan (Alike)kor rkor ‘circle / circular’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0990.05
Tibetan (Alike)nkhor v.‘circle / hover / wheel’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1543.05
Tibetan (Amdo:Bla-brang)thamorpheme kor jemorpheme ‘surround’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 687.4
Tibetan (Batang)kho⁵⁵ v.‘turn (round and round)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1808.03
Tibetan (Lhasa)khor⁵⁵ v.‘turn (round and round)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1808.02
Tibetan (Lhasa)koː¹³koː⁵⁵ ‘circle / circular’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0990.02
Tibetan (Lhasa)tha⁵³morphemekor⁵⁵ ‘surround’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 687.2
Tibetan (Written)kor◦kor adj‘round’Marrison 67 Naga
Tibetan (Written)sgor sgor ‘circle / circular’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0990.01
Tibetan (Written)ɦkhor v.‘turn (round and round)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1808.01
Tibetan (Xiahe)hkor hko ‘circle / circular’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0990.04
Tibetan (Xiahe)khor v.‘circle / hover / wheel’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1543.04
Tibetan (Xiahe)khor v.‘turn (round and round)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1808.04

2.1.4Tamangish2

Tamang (Risiangku)³kor ‘round object, unit’Mazaudon 91 TamQ

2.3.1Eastern Kiranti1

Limbukɔr- (kɔn-) v.i.‘disposed in a circle ? *’Michailovsky 89 Lm

2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang2

3.3rGyalrongic3

Daofunkhər vamorpheme v.‘circle / hover / wheel’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1543.12
Daofunkhər vamorpheme v.‘turn (round and round)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1808.12
Daofuʁɑr ʁɑr ‘circle / circular’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0990.12

3.3.1rGyalrong1

Caodengkɐprefix-skɔr ‘surround’Sun J 97 Cao

6.1.2.3Southern Loloish1

Mpikhoʔ¹ v.‘circle’Srinuan 76

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5748, *s/m-kwar ‘ROUND’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5748
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-5748,
  title  = {{*s/m-kwar 'ROUND'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5748},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5748}
}