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STEDT #6132

*grak

CORD / TIE / BIND
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · provisional

Reconstruction analysis

initialgrrhymeak

Intermediate reconstructions

Central Naga (Ao Group)*(h)rak ‘BIND, TIE’PCN #257

Connections

HPTB*grak ‘cord / tie / bind’p. 327

Notes

The WT/Chinese correspondence is from Gong (2001:26).

Chinese comparandum

絡 OC *glɑ̂k, GSR #766o ‘silk thread, cord’; Schuessler 2007:371 *râk; Mand. luò, lào.

Reflexes & cognates20 reflexes · 4 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmangrak ‘cord / tie / bind’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 591

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)18

*Aoaprefix-ɹak ‘BIND (W/ BAMBOO)’Bruhn 14 PCN: II.309
Ao (Chungli)a³prefix-ɹak¹ v.‘bind (with bamboo strip)’Bruhn 14 PCN: II.309
Ao (Chungli)³aprefix³rak v.‘bind, tie’Weidert 87 TBTo: 998
Ao (Mongsen: Longchang)akebmmorpheme rak◦thepsuffix ‘bind’Marrison 67 Naga
Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)ɹàk v.‘bind [bound] (with a bamboo strip)’Coupe 07 Ao
Lotha Nagarək³-kat²suffix- v.‘force, coerce’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.257
Lotha Nagarik◦atmorpheme◦asuffix ‘force’Murry 78: 47
Lotha Nagarük◦atmorpheme◦asuffix ‘weld’Murry 78: 136
Sangtamrak◦chomorpheme ‘tie’Kumar 73 Sang

1.3.3Zeme Group2

2.1.2.1Tibetan2

Tibetan (Written)grags-pasuffix v.‘bind’Jäschke 1881: 75
Tibetan (Written)ḥgrags-pasuffix v.‘bind’Jäschke 1881: 98

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #6132, *grak ‘CORD / TIE / BIND’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6132
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. HPTB p.327
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-6132,
  title  = {{*grak 'CORD / TIE / BIND'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #6132},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6132}
}