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STEDT #6174

*s-g-ryam

CATCH / HOLD FAST
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

prefixsinitialgrrhymeim

Intermediate reconstructions

Central Naga (Ao Group)*hram ‘CATCH, SEIZE, HOLD’PCN #139

Connections

HPTB*s-grim ‘catch / hold fast’p. 305

Notes

Huziwara sets up Proto-Asakian *Cim, which bears some resemblance to Old Chinese gʼi̯əm/gʼi̯əm ‘bird; animal; catch / capture’ (GSR 651j-m).

Chinese comparandum

禽 OC *gʼi̯əm, GSR #651j-m ‘bird, animal / catch, capture’; B & S 2011: *C.ɢəm {[C.ɢ](r)[ə]m}; Mand. qín.
擒 OC *gʼi̯əm, GSR #651n ‘catch, capture’; Mand. qín.

Reflexes & cognates29 reflexes · 7 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmans-grim ‘catch / hold fast’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 591

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)23

*Central Nagahram ‘CATCH, SEIZE, HOLD’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.139
*Aoaprefix-həm ‘HOLD’Bruhn 14 PCN: II.137
Ao (Chungli)am³²-si²suffix v.‘use’Bruhn 14 PCN: II.137
Ao (Chungli)am◦etsuffix v‘hold’Marrison 67 Naga
Ao (Chungli)am◦etsuffix ‘seize’Marrison 67 Naga
Ao (Chungli)áprefix◦àm v.‘hold’Temsunungsang 09 Ao: 4
Ao (Mongsen: Longchang)am◦ütsuffix ‘seize’Marrison 67 Naga
Ao (Mongsen: Longchang)üm◦etsuffix v‘hold’Marrison 67 Naga
Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)hə̀m◦ətsuffix v.‘hold [held]’Coupe 07 Ao
Lotha Nagahrəm³-at²suffix- v.‘catch, hold’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.139
Lotha Nagahram◦atmorpheme v‘catch’Marrison 67 Naga
Lotha Nagarhüm◦atsuffix◦asuffix ‘catch’Murry 78: 15
Lotha Nagarhə̄m◦āvsuffix v.‘catch’Acharya 75
Lotha Nagathrama◦tmorpheme ‘seize’Marrison 67 Naga
Sangtamrang v‘catch’Marrison 67 Naga
Sangtamrang ‘seize’Marrison 67 Naga
Sangtamrang◦chosuffix v.‘catch’Kumar 73 Sang
Sangtamrang◦yomorpheme ‘prison’Marrison 67 Naga
Yimchungrüram◦amorpheme-alumorpheme ‘seize’Marrison 67 Naga
Yimchungrüram◦lomorpheme v.‘catch’Kumar 73 Yim: 65

2.1.2.1Tibetan2

Tibetan (Written)sgrim ‘twist together’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 552.1
Tibetan (Written)sgrim-pasuffix v.‘hold fast, force or twist together’Jäschke 1881: 120

9Sinitic2

Chinese (GSR #)0651j ‘catch, capture’BaxterSagart 2011: 2228

9.0.1Old Chinese2

Chinese (Old/Mid)gʼi̯əm/gʼi̯əm ‘bird;animal;catch / capture’Karlgren 57 GSR: 651j-m
Chinese (Old)C.ɢəm {[C.ɢ](r)[ə]m} ‘catch, capture’BaxterSagart 2011: 2228

9.0.2Middle Chinese1

9.0.3Modern Chinese1

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #6174, *s-g-ryam ‘CATCH / HOLD FAST’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6174
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: HPTB p.305
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-6174,
  title  = {{*s-g-ryam 'CATCH / HOLD FAST'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #6174},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6174}
}