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STEDT #6088

*drel

MULE

Notes

This root occurs primarily in Tibetan, with loan extensions in Lepcha and Qiangic.

Reflexes & cognates15 reflexes · 4 subgroups

2.1.2Bodic3

Tsangla (Motuo)dʐe ‘mule’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 112.7

Tshona (Wenlang)dʐe³⁵ ‘mule’Lu 86 CuoM

Motuo Menbadʐe n‘mule’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0281.07

2.1.2.1Tibetan10

Tibetan (Written)dre ‘mule’Jäschke 1881

Tibetan (Written)dré-mo#1620 PTB *mow ‘WOMAN / FEMALE RELATIVE / FEMININE SUFFIX’PKC *maw ‘BRIDE / GROOM’PKar *muᴮ ‘FEMALE (HUMANS), MOTHER’ ‘mule (female)’Jäschke 1881

Tibetan (Written)dré-pʻomorpheme ‘mule (male)’Jäschke 1881

Tibetan (Written)drel ‘mule’Jäschke 1881

Tibetan (Written)drel n‘mule’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0281.01

Tibetan (Written)drel ‘mule’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 112.1

Tibetan (Written)drel.li(?)morpheme ‘mule’Sun J 85 TbGl: 617

Tibetan (Written)dreu ‘mule’Jäschke 1881

Tibetan (Written)mó#1620 PTB *mow ‘WOMAN / FEMALE RELATIVE / FEMININE SUFFIX’PKC *maw ‘BRIDE / GROOM’PKar *muᴮ ‘FEMALE (HUMANS), MOTHER’-dre ‘mule (female’Jäschke 1881

Tibetan (Written)pʻómorpheme-dre ‘mule (male)’Jäschke 1881

2.1.3Lepcha1

Lepchatre n.‘mule’Plaisier 07 Lepcha

3.2Qiangic1

Pumi (Lanping)dʐe¹³ n‘mule’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0281.09

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #6088, *drel ‘MULE’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6088

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

References: ("TIB")

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-6088,
  title  = {{*drel 'MULE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #6088},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6088}
}