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STEDT #1116

*b/d/r-gwat

LAUGH
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · exemplary

Reconstruction analysis

handlegotprefixdinitialgrhymeotcoverK · T

Notes

Written Tibetan shows variation both in the prefix (dgod-pa, rgod-pa, bgad-pa) and in the nuclear vowel (-o- ⪤ -a-), motivating the PTB reconstructed rhyme *-wat.

Reflexes & cognates40 reflexes · 5 subgroups

2.1.2Bodic3

Baimaga³⁴¹ v‘smile’Sun H 91 Baim: 3.9.4
Baimagɑ³⁴¹ ‘laugh’Sun H 91 Baim: 11.9
Tshona (Wenlang)git³⁵ tʰɑ⁵⁵morpheme ru⁵⁵morpheme ‘laugh’Lu 86 CuoM

2.1.2.1Tibetan24

Tibetan (Batang)gøʔ⁵³xho⁵⁵morpheme v.‘laugh / smile’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1735.03
Tibetan (Lhasa)khɛʔ¹³mo¹³morpheme-kɛʔ¹³ ‘laugh’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 717.2
Tibetan (Lhasa)kɛ¹³mo⁵⁵morpheme kɛ¹³² v.‘laugh / smile’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1735.02
Tibetan (Sherpa:Helambu)ge◦musuffix kyabmorpheme◦gensuffix ‘laugh’Bishop 89: 11.9
Tibetan (Sherpa:Helambu)ke◦mũ gyapgen v‘smile’suffix · morpheme · suffixBishop 89: 3.9.4
Spitigo◦cesuffix ‘laugh’Bodh 91: 11.9
Spitigo◦cesuffix v‘smile’Bodh 91: 3.9.4
Tibetan (Written)gad-mosuffix v.‘laugh’Luce 85: S.23

2.3.2Southern Kiranti3

Kulungges-asuffix v.‘laugh’Michailovsky 91 Kr: 103
Kulungges-asuffix v.‘laugh’Rai 75 Kul

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1116, *b/d/r-gwat ‘LAUGH’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1116
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: Bodic
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-1116,
  title  = {{*b/d/r-gwat 'LAUGH'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1116},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1116}
}