STEDT Etymon #314
3.0 Natural Objects, Plants, Foods > 3.1 Plants > 3.1.1 Names of trees and shrubs
#314 PTB *grwa BIRCH |
This comparison is from Gong 2001:28, but the OC reconstruction *gʼwå is JAM’s guess based upon the other characters in GSR #44; the Chinese character is not in AD #94 and not in GSR #44.
STC assigns the first syllable of WT gro‑ga rather to #585 PTB *s‑graw SKIN / OUTER COVERING.
| rn | analysis | lgid | reflex | gloss | gfn | language | grpid | grpno | grp | genetic | citation | srcabbr | srcid | rn |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 515033 | 314 | 2012 | grwa | birch | *Tibeto-Burman | 2 | 0.1 | Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions) | 0 | Matisoff 03 HPTB | JAM-HPTB | 591 | 0 | |
| 69966 | 314,m | 1578 | gro-ga | thin bark of birch tree | Tibetan (Written) | 24 | 2.1.2.1 | Tibetan | 1 | Benedict 72 STC | STC | 121 | 0 | |
| 621307 | 314 | 2238 | 樺 | kind of birch | Chinese (Hanzi) | 52 | 9 | Sinitic | 1 | Matisoff 03 HPTB | JAM-HPTB | 175 | 0 | |
| 621306 | 314 | 2101 | gʼwå | kind of birch | Chinese (Old) | 53 | 9.0.1 | Old Chinese | 0 | Matisoff 03 HPTB | JAM-HPTB | 175 | 0 |
樺 OC (*gʼwå), (not in GSR #44) ‘birch’; Schuessler 2007:283 *(g)wrâh; B & S 2011: (*qʷʰˁra‑s); Mand. huà.