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*s-tag

TIGER / YEAR OF TIGER
Proto-Bodic

Intermediate reconstructions

Tamangish*ᴬtaː ‘TIGER (YEAR)’MM-Thesis: 430

Notes

This is basically a Tibetan root, with loan extensions in Tamangic and Qiangic.

Reflexes & cognates40 reflexes · 5 subgroups

2.1.2Bodic5

Tsangla (Tilang)gongmorpheme-tak ‘tiger’Zhang Jichuan 86
Tshona (Wenlang)tɑ⁵⁵ ‘tiger’Lu 86 CuoM
Tshona (Mama)tᴀʔ⁵³ ‘tiger’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 124.6
Cuona Menbataʔ⁵³wu³¹morpheme n‘year of the tiger’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0757.06

2.1.4Tamangish1

*TGTMᴬtaː ‘tiger (year)’Mazaudon 94 These: 430

3.2Qiangic14

Guiqiongta⁵⁵ n‘year of the tiger’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0757.16
Guiqiongtɑ⁵⁵ ‘tiger’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 124.17
Muyatɑ⁵³ (ɣu²⁴morpheme) n‘year of the tiger’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0757.15
Pumi (Jiulong)tɑ⁵⁵ n‘year of the tiger’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0757.10
Qiang (Mianchi)pìmorpheme dá ‘3d earthly branch (tiger)’[Source note] calque (Evans 1999).Evans 99 Qiang: 1106
Qiang (Mianchi)pìmorpheme dá ‘tiger’[Source note] s2 in wild animal names (Evans 1999).Evans 99 Qiang: 377
Queyu (Xinlong)sta⁵⁵ n‘year of the tiger’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0757.13

3.3rGyalrongic1

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #6063, *s-tag ‘TIGER / YEAR OF TIGER’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6063
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: ("BOD") TBL: 0304.01
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-6063,
  title  = {{*s-tag 'TIGER / YEAR OF TIGER'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #6063},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6063}
}