User:Frigoris/Lizard words

Purely hypothetical links to lizard words


 * , in literary works (Xunzi, Han-era poet-philosopher Yang Xiong, etc.), notably a word
 * CVC-CVC derivation from the consonant-cluster-initial word, with PST., < PMKh. (tiger), as "little tiger". However the nasal is missing.
 * cf. semantically
 * cognate with PTB. (python, ), as "little python", also up to C1VC-C2VC derivation from C1C2VC, i.e. > /*[g|q|ʔ]A[n?].lA[n?]/. For the etymon see also.
 * cf. proposed derivation of Viet. from PMKh.  (python)
 * but cf.
 * STEDT also gives PTB (lizard) which might have given rise to /*[k|g|q]EN.[l|r]EN/.
 * Tantalisingly, STEDT gives yiŋlɩŋ.
 * Also tantalisingly, IDS gives a Dai Zhuang word /ʔaŋ.11 liau.11/.
 * Also cf. semantically and  (near homophone to 蝘蜓). One may be a pun or riddle-like derivation from the other, possibly as taboo or humour.


 * , also word
 * possibly linked to PST. (lick) ~  (tongue) (see also )
 * Also C1VC-C2VC < C1C2VC, i.e. /*s[j]Ak.l[j]Ak/, as "little licker" (one who sticks out the tongue, as geckos often do)
 * possible phono-semantic word: without the orthographic radical, the characters become and , semantically "to split and (ex)change/give" (as they do with the tail under duress) that also matches the pronunciation of a word inherited from an earlier stage (PST etc.)
 * see also: PTB (, "to split"), and  (, "tail"), the latter might serve as a pun in addition.
 * Overall, the proto-forms of "split-tail" might be harmonised into something like /*sEk.lEk/ on the vowel and final.


 * , possibly onomatopoeic of its sound
 * cf. En. and etymologies,
 * cf. Thai., Viet. , Lao , Khm. and