Essays on Writing and Language in Honor - Sino-Platonic Papers

EXAMPLE 26:
Sino-Plutonic Papers, 27 (August 3 1, 199 1)
(54 ~kyil
skyil-
'LO bend'
'sitting cross- 7. 2 *skwyil:. 'cross beam in
khrung legged' swjin: I sjuen: bell frame
skil-ldir
(W)
'handle, ring
for carrying'
(support for
hanging bell)'
(57) T hkhyil +to wind. #& *kwyil. kwyiw. 'compass,
twist, (Das:) kwje I kjwie 4 circle'
LO whirl'
33 *kulyil, '1.f. potter's
kwjin 1 kjiuen 4 wheel'
Examples 25-28 show both glo-1 and sibilant reflexes of original *sk-
clusters. They also are good examples of *-I> -1. Examples 29, 30,
and 31 show related words with different OC initials.
EXAMPLE 31
(33.) T hgycl *fall. stumble8
'fall down,
kill (of 2, 'spryel:, '(bend. bred
horses) ' *skrje W: , off). premarure
(*-mel) 'jew:/3jiu:3 btb,LIJ,
kill r young
animal ''"
Sibilant Reflex:
(48.) skyed 'generate, %. *skyel,
('skye-d) procreate' sjet / sjat 'name of the
liarong
f49.) ka skhiEl '10 take'
ancestor of
the Yin-
Shang
dynasty'
('khets 1 khiei- (in other
meanings)
Also read:
Whet I t~hie: 'steal,
stealthily'
Glortal Reflex:
(50. skye 'god, & 'skyep, 'increase,
p6B) increase, ?jek 13Ak 4 more
profit. dvanlage,
benefit' profitable'
The correspondence of *-9 to OC*-k is sbown..elsewhere (p.135)- The
phonological correspondences in the last group are regular, but it is
admittedly speculative to identify the OC in Ex. 48 as an epithet to the