*b-gryas

OLD

Connections

HPTB*pʷum ‘lay eggs / hatch / incubate’p. 57

HPTB*ʔu ‘egg / sit on eggs’p. 199

Notes

This root, originally proposed in Gong (2001), has been identified only in WT and WB. It is possible that some Himalayish forms ascribed to #2228 PTB *r-ga OLD should rather be assigned to this etymon.

Chinese comparandum

耆 OC *k’iər, GSR #552l ‘old’; Schuessler 2007:421 *gri; B & S 2011: *ɡrij {[ɡ]rij}; Mand. qí.

Reflexes & cognates12 reflexes · 4 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmanb-gres ‘old’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 591

2.1.2.1Tibetan2

Tibetan (Written)bgre-basuffix ‘grow old (resp.)’Jäschke 1881: 89

Tibetan (Written)bgres ‘grow old (perf.)’Jäschke 1881: 89

6.1Lolo-Burmese1

*Lolo-Burmesek-ri(y)² ‘big’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 611

6.1.1Burmish10

Burmese (Spoken Rangoon)tɕi⁵⁵ ‘big’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 800.40

Burmese (Written)amemorpheme◦krī: ‘old woman’Marrison 67 Naga

Burmese (Written)asakmorpheme◦krī: ‘old (of persons)’Marrison 67 Naga

Burmese (Written)krî ‘big’Hansson 89 AHKP: 319

Burmese (Inscriptional)krī ‘big’Okell 71

Burmese (Written)krî ‘great, big’Benedict 76 WBur

Burmese (Written)krī: ‘big’Marrison 67 Naga

Burmese (Written)krī: ‘big’Okell 71

Burmese (Written)kri³ adj‘big / large’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0964.26

Burmese (Written)kri³ ‘big’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 800.39

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #88, *b-gryas ‘OLD’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/88

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

References: Gong 2001:25; HPTB: 437

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-88,
  title  = {{*b-gryas 'OLD'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #88},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/88}
}