STEDT Etymon #5867
3.0 Natural Objects, Plants, Foods > 3.1 Plants > 3.1.4 Seeds and flowers, nuts
#5867 PTB *khrəy MILLET / RICE (provisional) |
Reflexes of the proposed etymon refer to ‘millet’ in Tibetan, but ‘rice’ in Qiangic and rGyalrongic.
饎 OC t̑ʼi̯əg, GSR #955l-m ‘cooked sacrificial millet’; Schuessler 2007:189 *khjəʔ; Mand. chì.
芑 OC *kʼi̯əg, GSR #953q ‘a kind of millet’; Schuessler 2007:422 *khəʔ; Mand. qǐ.