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#664 PTB *(h/k)ay VAGINA

Reconstructed mesoroots below:

PTk *haj VAGINA

This root seems fairly well attested, although it shows an unusual alternation between initial *k- and *h-, which is perhaps paralleled in #2284 PTB *r-ka EARTH / GROUND / SOIL and #2365 PTB *r-kəw ⪤ *hu STEAL. See Matisoff 1997 [fn: “Primary and secondary laryngeal initials in Tibeto-Burman.”] and HPTB p. 57.

15 records tagged by stedt under this etymon.

rn	analysis	lgid	reflex	gloss	language	grpid	grpno	grp	genetic	citation	srcabbr	srcid	rn
528828	664	2031	haj	vagina	*Tangkhulic	66	1.3.4	Tangkhulic	1	Mortensen 12 Tk	DRM-Tk	385	0
119916	664,665	1472	hai khur	vulva	Tangkhul	66	1.3.4	Tangkhulic	1	Matisoff 87 BP	JAM-Ety		0
118484	664,1614	1472	hai◦ra	semen	Tangkhul	66	1.3.4	Tangkhulic	1	Matisoff 87 BP	JAM-Ety		1 2
30300	664,665	1473	hay(-khur)	vulva	Tangkhul	66	1.3.4	Tangkhulic	1	Matisoff 85 GSTC	JAM-GSTC	184	0
620792	m,664	2024	ʔi-ʃie	vagina	Tusom	66	1.3.4	Tangkhulic	1	Mortensen 12 Tk	DRM-Tk	BodyParts.305	0
526882	664	2025	haj	vagina / vulva	Ukhrul	66	1.3.4	Tangkhulic	1	Mortensen 12 Tk	DRM-Tk		0
119919	664	1123	kai	vagina	Mru	15	1.6	Mru	1	Matisoff 87 BP	JAM-Ety		0
30304	664	1124	kai	vulva	Mru	15	1.6	Mru	1	Matisoff 85 GSTC	JAM-GSTC	184	0
2454	664,661	1036	ki◦ʈuʔ	vagina	Meche	80	1.7.1.1	Bodo	1	Weidert 87 TBTo	AW-TBT	62	0
119949	664,m	913	hi-rā	vulva	Limbu	31	2.3.1	Eastern Kiranti	1	Matisoff 87 BP	JAM-Ety		3
30302	664,m	914	hi-rā	vulva	Limbu	31	2.3.1	Eastern Kiranti	1	Matisoff 85 GSTC	JAM-GSTC	184	0
119907	664,m,3432	913	hi-rā-hong	vagina	Limbu	31	2.3.1	Eastern Kiranti	1	Matisoff 87 BP	JAM-Ety		0
30303	664,m,3432	914	hi-rā-hong	vagina	Limbu	31	2.3.1	Eastern Kiranti	1	Matisoff 85 GSTC	JAM-GSTC	184	0
119950	664,m,363,3428	913	hi-rā-mu-rik	female pubic hair	Limbu	31	2.3.1	Eastern Kiranti	1	Matisoff 87 BP	JAM-Ety		0
76004	664,m	911	hi◦ra	vagina	Limbu	31	2.3.1	Eastern Kiranti	1	Michailovsky 89 Lm	BM-Lim		0

^ 1.

Tangkhul hai ra certainly looks like a case of “genital flipflop”, i.e. semen is viewed as “vagina-semen”, since that is its destination.

^ 2.

Lit. “vagina-semen”. This certainly looks like a case of “genital flipflop”, i.e. semen is viewed as “vagina-semen”, since that is its destination.

^ 3.

The first syllable hi- is a lookalike of the vulgar Siamese word hǐi.