STEDT #6031
*ra
GOAT
Notes
Two possible prefixes are attested with this root: *b- in Bodo-Garo, and *s- underlying the voiceless rhotics in Tamang and Kaike.
Chinese comparandum
羜 OC *d’i̯o, GSR #84f ‘five month-old lamb’; Schuessler 2007:627 *draʔ; Mand. zhù.
Reflexes & cognates142 reflexes · 16 subgroups
1.1.1.1Western Tani8
1.1.1.2Eastern Tani1
1.2.2Central Chin2
1.3.3Zeme Group1
1.7.1.1Bodo4
1.7.1.2Garo1
2.1.1Western Himalayish2
2.1.2Bodic16
Kaikerha◦jā#1012 PTB *za-n ‘CHILD’MesorootsPKC *θaa ‘CHILD / OFFSPRING / SON / DAUGHTER’PBG *sa ‘CHILD’Allofams1 #428 PTB *tsa-n ⪤ *za-n ‘CHILD / SON / RELATIVES’1a #1012 PTB *za-n ‘CHILD’1b #2727 PTB *tsa-n ‘CHILD / GRANDCHILD / NEPHEW / NIECE’ n‘kid (goat)’Hale 73 CSD: 03a.039
Tshona (Mama)rᴀ¹³jeŋ¹³#6028 PTB *g-ya(k/ŋ) ‘SHEEP / YAK’ ‘goat / sheep (generic)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 116.6
Cuona Menbara³⁵ jeŋ³⁵#6028 PTB *g-ya(k/ŋ) ‘SHEEP / YAK’ n‘sheep (general)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0274.06
2.1.2.1Tibetan50
2.1.3Lepcha1
Lepchasă#34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’MesorootsPKC *sʰaa ‘ANIMAL / FLESH / MEAT’PCN *a-ʃaʔ ‘ANIMAL / MEAT, FLESH’PTk *sa ‘FLESH / MEAT / ANIMAL’Allofams1 #5711 PTB *sya-n ⪤ *sin ‘FLESH / ANIMAL / BODY / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’1a #34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’1b #318 PTB *sin ‘BODY / OWNER / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’-ro n‘the long-haired goat of Tibet’Lepcha să-ro is the origin of English serao or serow ‘wild mountain goat’.Mainwaring 98: 400
2.1.4Tamangish38
Gurungra◦jāhmorpheme◦jāq#2727 PTB *tsa-n ‘CHILD / GRANDCHILD / NEPHEW / NIECE’MesorootsPCN *tsaʔ ‘SON’PTk *tsa ‘CHILD / DIMINUTIVE’Allofams1 #428 PTB *tsa-n ⪤ *za-n ‘CHILD / SON / RELATIVES’1a #1012 PTB *za-n ‘CHILD’1b #2727 PTB *tsa-n ‘CHILD / GRANDCHILD / NEPHEW / NIECE’ n‘kid (goat)’Hale 73 CSD: 03a.039
Gurung (Ghachok)rə jahmorpheme◦jaq#2727 PTB *tsa-n ‘CHILD / GRANDCHILD / NEPHEW / NIECE’MesorootsPCN *tsaʔ ‘SON’PTk *tsa ‘CHILD / DIMINUTIVE’Allofams1 #428 PTB *tsa-n ⪤ *za-n ‘CHILD / SON / RELATIVES’1a #1012 PTB *za-n ‘CHILD’1b #2727 PTB *tsa-n ‘CHILD / GRANDCHILD / NEPHEW / NIECE’ ‘goat (kid)’Glover 72 GuVo: 3.A.39
Tamang (Sahu)rā◦tcā#2727 PTB *tsa-n ‘CHILD / GRANDCHILD / NEPHEW / NIECE’MesorootsPCN *tsaʔ ‘SON’PTk *tsa ‘CHILD / DIMINUTIVE’Allofams1 #428 PTB *tsa-n ⪤ *za-n ‘CHILD / SON / RELATIVES’1a #1012 PTB *za-n ‘CHILD’1b #2727 PTB *tsa-n ‘CHILD / GRANDCHILD / NEPHEW / NIECE’ n‘kid (goat)’Hale 73 CSD: 03a.039
Tamang (Sahu)ra◦tca#2727 PTB *tsa-n ‘CHILD / GRANDCHILD / NEPHEW / NIECE’MesorootsPCN *tsaʔ ‘SON’PTk *tsa ‘CHILD / DIMINUTIVE’Allofams1 #428 PTB *tsa-n ⪤ *za-n ‘CHILD / SON / RELATIVES’1a #1012 PTB *za-n ‘CHILD’1b #2727 PTB *tsa-n ‘CHILD / GRANDCHILD / NEPHEW / NIECE’ ‘kid, baby goat’Taylor 72 TmVo: 3.39
Thakalira cahmorpheme◦ca#2727 PTB *tsa-n ‘CHILD / GRANDCHILD / NEPHEW / NIECE’MesorootsPCN *tsaʔ ‘SON’PTk *tsa ‘CHILD / DIMINUTIVE’Allofams1 #428 PTB *tsa-n ⪤ *za-n ‘CHILD / SON / RELATIVES’1a #1012 PTB *za-n ‘CHILD’1b #2727 PTB *tsa-n ‘CHILD / GRANDCHILD / NEPHEW / NIECE’ n‘kid (goat)’Hale 73 CSD: 03a.039
Thakali (Tukche)rɔ cɔhmorpheme◦cɔ#2727 PTB *tsa-n ‘CHILD / GRANDCHILD / NEPHEW / NIECE’MesorootsPCN *tsaʔ ‘SON’PTk *tsa ‘CHILD / DIMINUTIVE’Allofams1 #428 PTB *tsa-n ⪤ *za-n ‘CHILD / SON / RELATIVES’1a #1012 PTB *za-n ‘CHILD’1b #2727 PTB *tsa-n ‘CHILD / GRANDCHILD / NEPHEW / NIECE’ ‘kid’Hari 71a ThVo: 3.A.39
2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang5
3.2Qiangic6
3.3rGyalrongic4
4Nungic1
6.1.2.2Central Loloish4
Lisu (Central)a³prefix-raw³ mū³#363 PTB *s/r-mul ⪤ *s-mil ⪤ *s-myal ‘HAIR / FUR / FEATHER’MesorootsPKC *mul ⪤ *hmul ‘HAIR (body) / FUR / WOOL’Allofams1 #363 PTB *s/r-mul ⪤ *s-mil ⪤ *s-myal ‘HAIR / FUR / FEATHER’1a #1429 PTB *s-mu-t ‘BEARD / FACIAL HAIR / HAIR’1b #2058 PTB *mum ‘CHIN / BEARD’ ‘fleece (sheep's wool)’Fraser 22
Lisu (Central)a³prefix-raw³ mū³#363 PTB *s/r-mul ⪤ *s-mil ⪤ *s-myal ‘HAIR / FUR / FEATHER’MesorootsPKC *mul ⪤ *hmul ‘HAIR (body) / FUR / WOOL’Allofams1 #363 PTB *s/r-mul ⪤ *s-mil ⪤ *s-myal ‘HAIR / FUR / FEATHER’1a #1429 PTB *s-mu-t ‘BEARD / FACIAL HAIR / HAIR’1b #2058 PTB *mum ‘CHIN / BEARD’ ‘wool (sheep's)’Fraser 22
Cite this entry
STEDT etymon #6031,
*ra ‘GOAT’.Stable link:
https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6031Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-6031,
title = {{*ra 'GOAT'}},
author = {STEDT},
year = {2017},
note = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #6031},
url = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6031}
}