dzay ⪤ tsaːy

CATTLE / LIVESTOCK / DOMESTIC ANIMAL

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

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Intermediate reconstructions

Lolo-Burmese*dzay² ‘ANIMAL (DOMESTIC) / LIVESTOCK’

Connections

HPTB*dzay ‘cattle / livestock / domestic animal’p. 209

Notes

GSTC #129; ⪤ *tsaːy ‘property, cattle, economically valuable animal’. Same root as GSTC #143 ‘elephant, cattle’ as discussed in Matisoff 1988, ‘Universal semantics and allofamic identification... property, livestock, talent.’

Reflexes & cognates8 reflexes · 8 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmandzay ‘cattle / livestock / domestic animal’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 588

6.1Lolo-Burmese1

*Lolo-Burmesedzay² ‘cattle / animal (domestic)’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 129

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish2

Luquandʐe³³ ‘livestock’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 129

Luquandʑe³³ n‘livestock’Ma 48 Lolo

6.1.2.2Central Loloish2

Lahu (Black)cê hu#97 PTB *hu ‘BORN / BIRTH / REAR’ ve#450 PTB *way ‘BE / COPULA / NOMINALIZER / SUBORDINATOR’Allofams1 #1821 PTB *s/g-ray ⪤ *way ‘BE / COPULA / NOMINALIZER / SUBORDINATOR / GOD’1a #449 PTB *g-ray ‘BE / COPULA / NOMINALIZER / SUBORDINATOR’1b #658 PTB *g-ray ‘GOD / CREATOR’1c #450 PTB *way ‘BE / COPULA / NOMINALIZER / SUBORDINATOR’1d #5495 PTB *s-ray ‘PLURALIZER’ ov‘raise animals’Matisoff 88 DL: 1072

Lahu (Black)cê-càmorpheme ‘domestic animals; cattle’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 129

6.1.2.3Southern Loloish1

Akhadjè-zàmorpheme ‘cattle / animal (domestic)’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 129

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #58, *dzay ⪤ *tsaːy ‘CATTLE / LIVESTOCK / DOMESTIC ANIMAL’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/58

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-58,
  title  = {{*dzay ⪤ *tsaːy 'CATTLE / LIVESTOCK / DOMESTIC ANIMAL'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #58},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/58}
}

*dzay ⪤ *tsaːy