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STEDT #6555

*ra

WILD BOAR

Proto-Tani · provisional

Notes

This may well be a loan from Indo-Aryan (cf. Sanskrit varāha-).

Reflexes & cognates18 reflexes · 3 subgroups

1.1.1Tani1

*Tanira ‘wild boar’Sun J 93 HCST: 462

1.1.1.1Western Tani17

Apatanisɯmorpheme-dĩ#6293 PTani *dum ‘BARKING DEER’-sɯmorpheme-re ‘animal, wild’Sun J 93 Tani

Apatanisɯmorpheme-re ‘boar (wild hog)’Sun J 93 Tani

Apatanisɯmorpheme-re ‘pig (wild)’Sun J 93 Tani

Apatanisɯmorpheme-re ra-nɯmorpheme ‘wild boar’Sun J 93 HCST

Apatanisɯmorpheme-re-ra-nə#1621 PTB *n(y)u ‘FEMALE / MOTHER’PTani *nə ‘MOTHER’PKC *nuu ‘FEMALE’PKC *nuu ‘MOTHER’PKC *nu-ŋaak ⪤ *ŋaak-nuu ‘MAIDEN / BELLE / WOMAN (unmarried)’PNN *ɲəːw ‘BIG / MOTHER’ ‘boar (wild hog), female’Sun J 93 Tani

Apatanisɯmorpheme-rɯ ‘wild boar’Sun J 93 Tani

Apatanisɯmorpheme-rɯ hímorpheme-rɯŋmorpheme ‘wild boar (male)’Sun J 93 Tani

Bengnira-nɯː#1621 PTB *n(y)u ‘FEMALE / MOTHER’PTani *nə ‘MOTHER’PKC *nuu ‘FEMALE’PKC *nuu ‘MOTHER’PKC *nu-ŋaak ⪤ *ŋaak-nuu ‘MAIDEN / BELLE / WOMAN (unmarried)’PNN *ɲəːw ‘BIG / MOTHER’ ‘wild boar (female)’Sun J 93 Tani

Bengnira-puː#1635 PTB *pu ‘MALE / MASCULINE SUFFIX’ ‘wild boar (male)’Sun J 93 Tani

Bengnira-wuːmorpheme ‘wild boar (young)’Sun J 93 Tani

Bengnisimorpheme-rɯː ‘wild boar’Sun J 93 Tani

Bengnišimorpheme-rɯː ra-nɯː#1621 PTB *n(y)u ‘FEMALE / MOTHER’PTani *nə ‘MOTHER’PKC *nuu ‘FEMALE’PKC *nuu ‘MOTHER’PKC *nu-ŋaak ⪤ *ŋaak-nuu ‘MAIDEN / BELLE / WOMAN (unmarried)’PNN *ɲəːw ‘BIG / MOTHER’ ‘wild boar’Sun J 93 HCST

Bokaraprefix tiːmorpheme ɕəmorpheme rə n‘boar (wild)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0312.24

Bokaraprefix-diːmorpheme səmorpheme-rə ‘boar’Sun J 93 Tani

Bokar Lhobaaprefix tiːmorpheme ɕəmorpheme◦rə ‘boar’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 127.51

Galo`ra◦nə#1621 PTB *n(y)u ‘FEMALE / MOTHER’PTani *nə ‘MOTHER’PKC *nuu ‘FEMALE’PKC *nuu ‘MOTHER’PKC *nu-ŋaak ⪤ *ŋaak-nuu ‘MAIDEN / BELLE / WOMAN (unmarried)’PNN *ɲəːw ‘BIG / MOTHER’ n.‘boar sow’GLDC 09 Galo

Galo`ra◦nə#1621 PTB *n(y)u ‘FEMALE / MOTHER’PTani *nə ‘MOTHER’PKC *nuu ‘FEMALE’PKC *nuu ‘MOTHER’PKC *nu-ŋaak ⪤ *ŋaak-nuu ‘MAIDEN / BELLE / WOMAN (unmarried)’PNN *ɲəːw ‘BIG / MOTHER’ n.‘sow (boar)’GLDC 09 Galo

1.1.1.2Eastern Tani1

Padam-Mishing [Abor-Miri]simorpheme-ra ‘wild boar’Sun J 93 HCST

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #6555, *ra ‘WILD BOAR’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6555

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

References: JS-HCST: 148

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-6555,
  title  = {{*ra 'WILD BOAR'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #6555},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/6555}
}