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*lu-s

BODY

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handlelu-sinitiallrhymeu-ssuffixscoverL · VS

Notes

This root seems confined to Himalayish and Qiangic. There is also a possible Tani cognate: Tagin a din li ne ‘flesh’.

Reflexes & cognates42 reflexes · 7 subgroups

2.1.2Bodic13

Baimaku¹³#2 PTB *s-kəw ‘BODY / CHEST / THORAX / CORPSE’ ly⁵³ ‘body’Sun H 91 Baim: 1.1

Kaikelho ‘body’Matisoff 87 BP

Tsangla (Central)lus◦pu#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ ‘body’Andvik 93: 1

Tsangla (Central)lus◦pu#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ ‘body’Egli-Roduner: 31 8

Tsangla (Central)lus◦pu#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ ‘trunk’Egli-Roduner: 33 6

Tsangla (Motuo)lup¹³ su⁵⁵#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ ‘body’Zhang Jichuan 86

Tsangla (Motuo)lus◦pu#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ ‘body’Sun H 80 MLD

Tsangla (Motuo)lus◦pu#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ ‘body’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 231.7

Tsangla (Tilang)lus-pu#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ ‘body’Zhang Jichuan 86

Tshona (Mama)lu¹³ po⁵³#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ ‘body [1]’Sun H 80 MLD

Tshona (Mama)lu¹³po⁵³#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ ‘body’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 231.6

Motuo Menbalus pu#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ n‘body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0073.07

Cuona Menbalu³⁵po³⁵morpheme n‘body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0073.06

2.1.2.1Tibetan9

Tibetan (Khams:Dege)lu¹³po⁵³#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ ‘body’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 231.3

Tibetan (Lhasa)ly¹³mɛ⁵²morpheme n‘lower half of the body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0736.02

Tibetan (Lhasa)ly¹³tø⁵²#21 PTB *s-twat ‘BODY (UPPER)’ n‘upper half of the body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0735.02

Tibetan (Written)lus ‘body’Marrison 67 Naga

Tibetan (Written)lus ‘body’Matisoff 87 BP

Tibetan (Written)lus n‘body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0073.01

Tibetan (Written)lus-po#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ ‘body’Matisoff 87 BP

Tibetan (Written)lus-po#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ ‘body’Zhang Liansheng 88: 7

Tibetan (Written)sku#2 PTB *s-kəw ‘BODY / CHEST / THORAX / CORPSE’-lus ‘body’Matisoff 87 BP

2.1.4Tamangish3

Tamang (Risiangku)³lui n‘body’Mazaudon 91 TamQ: 1.1

Thakali (Tukche)lih ‘body’Matisoff 87 BP

Thakali (Tukche)lih ‘body’Hari 71a ThVo: 2.A.1

2.3.3Central Kiranti1

Dumilɨʔɨ ‘corpse / dead body’Driem 93 Dumi

3.1Tangut1

Tangut [Xixia]lɪ̥wụ kwə̣#2 PTB *s-kəw ‘BODY / CHEST / THORAX / CORPSE’ ‘body’Dai 89 Xixi: 1.1

3.2Qiangic9

Guiqiongli³³ pu⁵³#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ ‘body’Sun H 91 GuiQ

Guiqiongli³³pu⁵³#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ ‘body’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 231.17

Guiqiongli³¹pu⁵⁵#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ n‘body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0073.16

Muyaly³³pu⁵³#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ n‘body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0073.15

Pumi (Taoba)ly³⁵ pu⁵³#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ ‘body’Lu 83 Pumi

Pumi (Taoba)ly³⁵pu⁵³#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ ‘body’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 231.10

Xumili³³ pu⁵⁵#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ ‘body’Sun H 91 ShiQ

Xumili³³pu⁵⁵#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ ‘body’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 231.20

Xumili³³sɿ³³morphemepu⁵³#1902 PTB *-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’ n‘body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0073.17

3.3rGyalrongic6

Ergong (Northern)li³³ spə⁵³#22 PTB *s-pi ⪤ *pay ‘BODY’ ‘body’Original *lis-pə > Ergong li³³spə⁵³ by comparison with mək³³spə⁵³ ‘body hair’ .Sun H 91 ErNQ: 1.1

Ergong (Northern)li³³ spə⁵³#22 PTB *s-pi ⪤ *pay ‘BODY’ kʰok⁵³morpheme pə³³ ‘torso / trunk’Sun H 91 ErNQ: 1.6

Ergong (Northern)li³³ spə⁵³#22 PTB *s-pi ⪤ *pay ‘BODY’ sqa⁵³morpheme pa³³morpheme ‘back’Sun H 91 ErNQ: 1.4

Ergong (Northern)li³³ spə⁵³#22 PTB *s-pi ⪤ *pay ‘BODY’ ŋo³³#1192 PTB *r-ŋwa-l ‘FACE / FRONT’Allofams3a #1192 PTB *r-ŋwa-l ‘FACE / FRONT’3b #2017 PTB *ŋar ‘TOPKNOT / FOREPART / FRONT SIDE’3c #2525 PTB *s-ŋa ‘BEFORE / FRONT’ rə³³#1213 PTB *s-rəy ‘FRONT’ pa³³ ‘front’Sun H 91 ErNQ: 1.5

Ergong (Northern)li³³ spə⁵³#22 PTB *s-pi ⪤ *pay ‘BODY’ ɣje³³#2786 PTB *g-(y/r)a ‘RIGHT (HAND)’PTk *ja ‘RIGHT SIDE’ pa³³ ‘side (right)’Sun H 91 ErNQ: 1.2

Ergong (Northern)li³³ spə⁵³#22 PTB *s-pi ⪤ *pay ‘BODY’ ɣjon⁵³morpheme pa³³morpheme ‘side (left)’Sun H 91 ErNQ: 1.3

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #11, *lu-s ‘BODY’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/11

Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-11,
  title  = {{*lu-s 'BODY'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #11},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/11}
}