4.0 Kinship Terms, Ethnonyms, Social Roles > 4.7 Kinship Terms > 4.7.1 Previous generation

#2665 PTB *sru(w) AUNT / ELDER SISTER / FATHER-IN-LAW / RELATIVE

This etymon is noteworthy in that it seems to have a solid reflex in the extinct language Pyu, spoken in Northern Burma in the second half of the first millennium A.D.

rnanalysislgidreflexglossgfnlanguagegrpidgrpnogrpgeneticcitationsrcabbrsrcidrn
764872665168sljuɣaunt / elder sister*Sino-Tibetan10Sino-Tibetan (previously published reconstructions)0Coblin 86WSC-SH380
196102665174sru(w)aunt*Tibeto-Burman20.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)0Chou 72ACST133e0
51587726652012sru(w)aunt / elder sister*Tibeto-Burman20.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)0Matisoff 03 HPTBJAM-HPTB6130
33869026651788father-in-lawnKanauri202.1.1Western Himalayish0Bailey 11BAI19110
3042172665736rufather-in-lawKanauri202.1.1Western Himalayish0Benedict 72 STCSTC108n3040
3575002665,m1804sro moaunt <mother's sister>nTibetan (Written)242.1.2.1Tibetan1Huang and Dai 92 TBLTBL0241.010
25407026651564sruauntTibetan (Written)242.1.2.1Tibetan1Marrison 67 NagaGEM-CNL0
1967902665,m1582sru moaunt (maternal)Tibetan (Written)242.1.2.1Tibetan1Sun H 91 ZMYYZMYYC330.10
30421926651753srurelativesPyu446.1.1Burmish1Benedict 72 STCSTC108n3040
3284382665,2665481si̯u/si̯usister (elder)Chinese (Old/Mid)539.0.1Old Chinese0Karlgren 57 GSRGSR133e0
202272665,2665480sri̯u/si̯uolder sisterChinese (Old/Mid)539.0.1Old Chinese0Chou 72ACST133e0

Chinese comparandum

嬃 OC *si̯u, GSR #133e; Mand. .
叟 sǒu s.ruʔ (dial. › sruʔ › srjuwX › sruwX › suwX)