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STEDT #1112

siŋ ⪤ syaŋ

CHIN / JAW / BEARD

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handlesiŋinitialsrhymeiŋ ⪤ syacoverS · NWS

Reflexes & cognates13 reflexes · 5 subgroups

1.1.1.2Eastern Tani1

Padam-Mishing [Abor-Miri]shong mûr#467 PTB *s-muːr ‘MOUTH / LIP / HOLD IN MOUTH / CHEW / FACE / GILLS’PKC *hmuur ‘LIP / BEAK / MOUTH / TIP’PCN *mən ‘MOUTH’PTk *mor ‘MOUTH’ ‘beard’Matisoff 87 BP

1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang5

Changgàuˇ#2057 PTB *s-kow ‘CHIN’-šʌ̀ŋ ‘chin’Weidert 87 TBTo: 1061

Changkau#273 PTB *m/s-k(w)a-y ‘MOUTH / OPENING / SPREAD / DOOR / FACE / JAW’PKC *kaa ‘ENTRANCE / MOUTH’PKC *kaa ⪤ *khaa ‘CHIN / JAW (lower)’PCN *ka ‘GAPE, OPEN MOUTH’PTk *ka ‘OPEN (MOUTH)’PTk *kʰa ‘CHIN / JAW’PKar *kaᴮ ‘CHIN, JAW’ šaŋ ‘chin, jaw, brim’French 83: 468

Changkau#273 PTB *m/s-k(w)a-y ‘MOUTH / OPENING / SPREAD / DOOR / FACE / JAW’PKC *kaa ‘ENTRANCE / MOUTH’PKC *kaa ⪤ *khaa ‘CHIN / JAW (lower)’PCN *ka ‘GAPE, OPEN MOUTH’PTk *ka ‘OPEN (MOUTH)’PTk *kʰa ‘CHIN / JAW’PKar *kaᴮ ‘CHIN, JAW’◦shang ‘chin’Marrison 67 Naga

Changkau#273 PTB *m/s-k(w)a-y ‘MOUTH / OPENING / SPREAD / DOOR / FACE / JAW’PKC *kaa ‘ENTRANCE / MOUTH’PKC *kaa ⪤ *khaa ‘CHIN / JAW (lower)’PCN *ka ‘GAPE, OPEN MOUTH’PTk *ka ‘OPEN (MOUTH)’PTk *kʰa ‘CHIN / JAW’PKar *kaᴮ ‘CHIN, JAW’◦shang ‘jaw’Marrison 67 Naga

Changkau#2057 PTB *s-kow ‘CHIN’◦shang◦wimorpheme ‘beard’Marrison 67 Naga

2.1.4Tamangish1

Tamang (Risiangku)²kam#630 PTB *gam ‘JAW / CHIN / MOLAR’-siŋ n comp‘jaw’Mazaudon 91 TamQ: 3.13, 3.13

2.3.1Eastern Kiranti4

Limbusiŋ◦daŋ#286 PTB *l/m-da(n/ŋ) ‘CHIN / CHEEK’◦basuffix ‘chin, jaw’Michailovsky 89 Lm

Limbusi◦dang#286 PTB *l/m-da(n/ŋ) ‘CHIN / CHEEK’◦basuffix ‘chin’Michailovsky 91 Kr: 33

Limbuyet#237 PTB *g-ra-t ‘BONE’◦siŋ◦bāsuffix ‘chin’Matisoff 87 BP

Yakhasiŋ◦saːmorpheme◦liː#287 PTB *li ‘CHIN / DIMPLE’ ‘chin’Kohn 90: 3.12

2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang2

Chepangsyang◦khi ‘beard’Matisoff 87 BP

Chepangsyaŋ◦kʰi ‘beard’Caughley 72 CVoc: 2.A.13

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1112, *siŋ ⪤ *syaŋ ‘CHIN / JAW / BEARD’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1112

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-1112,
  title  = {{*siŋ ⪤ *syaŋ 'CHIN / JAW / BEARD'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1112},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1112}
}