*s/r-kawk ⪤ *s/r-kwak
Reconstruction analysis
Intermediate reconstructions
Connections
Notes
See *kok STC #342 and n. 229. The allofam with medial labial is reconstructed on the basis of the Chourasya, Thulung, and rGyalrong forms. The r- prefix is reconstructed based on the rGyalrong forms. The initial reflexes of this etymon vary from k- to h-.
The WB form cannot descend from the variant with medial *-wa-, since that would have given WB -wa-.
Chinese comparanda
革 OC *kɛk, GSR #931a-b ‘hide, skin’; WHB-OC #1325; Li 1971: *krək; Baxter 1992: *krɨk > Mand. gé ‘leather’.
The reconstructed PTB form has a rounded element, reflected either in the main vowel (*o) or in the medial (*w). The Chinese form must be reconstructed without a rounded element. The correspondences of initial consonant, main vowel, and final consonant are regular (including the vowel correspondence PTB *a : OC *ə).
Generally, we expect to see OC medial *-r- corresponding to PTB *-r-. However, there are some proposed cognates in which PTB prefixal *r- before velars appears to correspond to medial *-r- in OC, for example PTB *r-kang ‘shin’: OC 胻 *grangs ‘shinbone’, Mand. héng (for more details, see Handel 2009:188, 190-1). Whether this indicates that metathesis has taken place in one or both languages, or that additional variants of the root existed, is not clear.
鞹 OC *k’wɑ̂k, GSR #774h-i ‘leather’; Coblin 86:134 ST *khwak > OC *khwak; Schuessler 2007:341 *khwâk; B & S 2011: (*kʷʰˁak); Mand. kuò.
Reflexes & cognates201 reflexes · 30 subgroups
0Sino-Tibetan (previously published reconstructions)1
0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)10
1.1.1Tani1
1.1.1.1Western Tani21
1.1.1.2Eastern Tani2
1.2.1.1Northern Chin2
1.2.4“Old Kuki”1
1.5Mikir [Karbi]1
1.7.1.1Bodo1
1.7.1.3Koch1
1.7.3.1Jingpho3
2Himalayish3
2.1.2.1Tibetan7
2.3Kiranti3
2.3.1Eastern Kiranti10
2.3.2Southern Kiranti11
2.3.4Western Kiranti18
3.2Qiangic5
3.3.1rGyalrong5
6.1Lolo-Burmese4
6.1.1Burmish32
6.1.2Loloish2
6.1.2.1Northern Loloish21
6.1.2.2Central Loloish23
6.1.2.3Southern Loloish17
6.1.2.4Southeastern Loloish1
7Karenic4
9.0.1Old Chinese7
9.0.2Middle Chinese1
9.0.3Modern Chinese1
Cite this entry
*s/r-kawk ⪤ *s/r-kwak ‘OUTER COVERING / SKIN / BARK / RIND’.https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/586BibTeX
@misc{stedt-586,
title = {{*s/r-kawk ⪤ *s/r-kwak 'OUTER COVERING / SKIN / BARK / RIND'}},
author = {STEDT},
year = {2017},
note = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #586},
url = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/586}
}