Basic Weapons Swadesh List ?

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Swadesh list
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A Swadesh list is one of several lists of vocabulary with "basic" meanings and developed by Morris Swadesh in the 1940-50s, which is used in lexicostatistics (quantitative language relatedness assessment) and glottochronology (language divergence dating).

I thought it might be fun to find out what the basic terms for basic weapons are in different countries and to speculate whether these might be cognates or loans . I'm especially interested in Asia ( SE , South and East ) .



Burmese list :


Sword / knife / blade - dha
Spear - hlan
Staff / Stick - dhouk
Bow - lay
Arrows - hmya
Shield - daing



Any participation most welcome