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STEDT #7181

*sar

OLD (of things)

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Intermediate reconstructions

Kuki-Chin*tar ‘OLD / SENILE’PKC #214

Tangkhulic*saar ‘OLD’DRM#518

Lolo-Burmese*san² ‘OLD (of things)’DL:1174

Karenic*saʔ ‘OLD (of people)’JAM

Notes

This root shows up in several different subgroups, with the usual meaning “old (of things)”. In Karenic and Kuki-Chin, the meaning seems to have shifted to “old (of people)”.

Reflexes & cognates34 reflexes · 13 subgroups

1.2Kuki-Chin1

*Chintar ‘OLD / SENILE’VanBik 09 PKC: 214

1.2.1.1Northern Chin3

Paitetek ‘senile’VanBik 09 PKC: 214

Thadotéʔ-I, tèʔ-II ‘old (person)’VanBik 09 PKC: 214

Tiddimteːk² ‘old’VanBik 09 PKC: 214

1.2.2Central Chin4

Lai (Hakha)târ-I, tǎr-II be v.‘old’VanBik 09 PKC: 214

Lai (Falam)tǎr-INV be v.‘old’VanBik 09 PKC: 214

Lushai [Mizo]tar ‘old (of persons)’Marrison 67 Naga

Lushai [Mizo]tár be v.‘old or aged’VanBik 09 PKC: 214

1.2.4“Old Kuki”2

Sorbungsanmorpheme-táa-rià ‘person, old’Mortensen 11 Sorbung: People.061

Sorbungʔəprefix-taa-ria ‘old folks’Mortensen 11 Sorbung: Verbs.192

1.3“Naga” Areal Group1

Maringtara ‘old (of persons)’Marrison 67 Naga

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)1

Lotha Nagae¹prefix-son³- be v.‘old (of people)’Bruhn 14 SuppCN

1.3.4Tangkhulic8

*Tangkhulicsaar ‘old’Mortensen 12 Tk: 518

Huishukəmorpheme-sa ‘old’Mortensen 12 Tk: Verbs.161

Kachaikəmorpheme-sor ‘old’Mortensen 12 Tk: Verbs.140

Tangkhulkaprefix◦sar◦amorpheme ‘old (of persons)’Marrison 67 Naga

Tangkhulkaprefix◦sar◦amorpheme ‘old man’Marrison 67 Naga

Tangkhulkaprefix◦sar◦vamorpheme ‘old woman’Marrison 67 Naga

Tangkhulsar ‘old’Bhat 69 TNV: 93

Ukhrulkəmorpheme-sar ‘old’Mortensen 12 Tk

1.5Mikir [Karbi]4

Mikir [Karbi]sar ‘old (of persons)’Marrison 67 Naga

Mikir [Karbi]sar◦buramorpheme ‘old man’Marrison 67 Naga

Mikir [Karbi]sar◦pi#2559 PTB *ʔ-pəy ‘GRANDMOTHER’PKC *pii ‘GRANDMOTHER’PTk *bɨ ‘GRANDMOTHER / MOTHER / AUNT / FEMALE’ ‘old woman’Marrison 67 Naga

Mikir [Karbi]sar◦posuffix ‘old man’Marrison 67 Naga

2.3.2Southern Kiranti1

BantawabuDhiloanword◦khok◦masuffix ‘old woman’Rai 85 BnDs

3.2Qiangic3

Pumi (Lanping)ʂɑ¹³ti⁵⁵morpheme ‘old / elderly’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1058.09

Pumi (Lanping)ʂɑ⁵⁵ v.‘old, be’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1493.09

Pumi (Qinghua)ʂɑ¹³ ‘old (of people)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 857.11

6.1.1Burmish2

Leqi (Luxi)saːn³³ v.‘old, be’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1493.33

Atsi [Zaiwa]san⁵¹ v.‘old, be’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1493.30

6.1.2.2Central Loloish2

Lahu (Black)hɛ#5544 PTB *s-ya ‘SWIDDEN’PLB *hya¹ ‘SWIDDEN / FIELD (MOUNTAIN)’-šā n.‘old field’Matisoff 74 TJLB: 213

Lahu (Black)ɔ̀#5450 PTB *ʔa(ŋ/k)- ‘NOUN PREFIX’-šā ‘something old’Matisoff 74 TJLB: 213

7Karenic5

*Karen (Pwo)šá' ‘old (humans)’Jones 61: 3

Bweθa◦bwɛmorpheme be v.‘mature, to be old’Henderson 97 Kar

Bweθa◦bwɛmorpheme-thamorpheme v.‘grow old’Henderson 97 Kar

Pwo (Bassein)šáʔ ‘old (humans)’Jones 61: 3

Pwo (Moulmein)šá ‘old (humans)’Jones 61: 3

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #7181, *sar ‘OLD (of things)’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/7181

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

References: JAM

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-7181,
  title  = {{*sar 'OLD (of things)'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #7181},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/7181}
}