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STEDT #5776

*grwaŋ

VILLAGE / CROSSROADS
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · provisional

Intermediate reconstructions

Northern Naga/Konyakian*C-griŋ ‘VILLAGE’from WTF-PNN: 574

Notes

This root bears some resemblance to #2773 PTB *r/g-wa VILLAGE, although the velar element in the latter is prefixal, not part of an initial cluster.

Chinese comparandum

巷 OC *gʼŭng, GSR #1182s ‘lane, street’; Coblin 1986:156 ST *grong > OC *grungh; B & S 2011: *C.ɡˁroŋ-s; Mand. gǎng.

The comparison with Chinese 巷 in the sense ‘village/street’ is due to Coblin 1986:156.

Reflexes & cognates21 reflexes · 11 subgroups

0Sino-Tibetan (previously published reconstructions)1

*Sino-Tibetangrong ‘village / street’Coblin 86: 156

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmangrwa-ŋ ‘village’[Source note] [Matisoff 1972b, set 28]LaPolla 87: 173

1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang5

Changsang ‘village’Marrison 67 Naga
Konyakjing ‘village’Marrison 67 Naga
Phomching ‘village’Marrison 67 Naga
Phomčɯŋ³³ ‘village’Burling 98 Phom
Phomjüng ‘village’Marrison 67 Naga

2.1.2.1Tibetan4

Tibetan (Written)groŋ tshomorpheme n‘village’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0066.01

4Nungic5

Dulongcim⁵³morphemekɹɔŋ⁵⁵ n‘village’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0066.20
Trung [Dulong]kɹɔŋ⁵⁵ ‘village’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 362.46
Trung [Dulong] (Dulonghe)krɔɔŋ⁵⁵ ‘village’LaPolla 87: 173
Trung [Dulong] (Nujiang)khrɔɔŋ⁵³ ‘village’LaPolla 87: 173
Trung [Dulong] (Nujiang)khɹɔŋ⁵³ ‘village’Sun H 82 Dul

6.1.2Loloish1

*Loloishkoŋ³ ‘village’Bradley 79 PLo: 355B

6.1.2.3Southern Loloish2

Bisukhɔ́ŋ-bamorpheme ‘village’LaPolla 87: 173
Pyenkhɔŋ31 ‘village’Shintani 09 Pyen: 081027

9Sinitic1

9.0.1Old Chinese2

Chinese (Old/Mid)gʼŭng/ɣɑ̊ng- n.‘lane, street’Karlgren 57 GSR: 1182s
Chinese (Old)Cprefix.gˤroŋ-ssuffix ‘lane, street’BaxterSagart 2011: 3100

9.0.3Modern Chinese1

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5776, *grwaŋ ‘VILLAGE / CROSSROADS’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5776
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-5776,
  title  = {{*grwaŋ 'VILLAGE / CROSSROADS'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5776},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5776}
}