Reconstruction analysis
handletiinitialtrhymeicoverT · V
Notes
This root seems to be confined to the final syllable of compounds, both in TB and in Chinese.
A similar root, #1126 PTB *tsyi BODY, which usually occurs in non-final position in compounds, may be allofamically related.
Another possible co-allofam is #1243 PTB *m-di BUTTOCKS / HIPS / FLESHY PART / WAIST / BACK.
Reflexes & cognates17 reflexes · 6 subgroups
3.2Qiangic5
5Tujia1
6.1.2.1Northern Loloish2
Yi (Xide)l̩³³#2409 PTB *b-ləy ‘FOUR’PTani *pri ‘FOUR’PTani *pri-ñi ‘EIGHT’PKC *lii ‘FOUR’PCN *phV-ləj ‘FOUR’PTk *ti ‘FOUR’PBG *brəi ‘FOUR’PNN *bə ləy ‘FOUR’TGTM *ᴮbli ‘FOUR’PLB *b/ʔ-ləy² ‘FOUR’PL *b-le² ‘FOUR’PKar *lwi-t ‘FOUR’bo²¹morphemethi³³ adj‘square / rectangular (lit. 'four square body')’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0989.35
6.1.2.2Central Loloish6
6.1.2.3Southern Loloish1
9.0.3Modern Chinese2
Chinese (Mandarin)shēn#34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’MesorootsPKC *sʰaa ‘ANIMAL / FLESH / MEAT’PCN *a-ʃaʔ ‘ANIMAL / MEAT, FLESH’PTk *sa ‘FLESH / MEAT / ANIMAL’Allofams1 #5711 PTB *sya-n ⪤ *sin ‘FLESH / ANIMAL / BODY / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’1a #34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’1b #318 PTB *sin ‘BODY / OWNER / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’-tǐ ‘body’Evans 91
Chinese (Mandarin)shen#34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’MesorootsPKC *sʰaa ‘ANIMAL / FLESH / MEAT’PCN *a-ʃaʔ ‘ANIMAL / MEAT, FLESH’PTk *sa ‘FLESH / MEAT / ANIMAL’Allofams1 #5711 PTB *sya-n ⪤ *sin ‘FLESH / ANIMAL / BODY / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’1a #34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’1b #318 PTB *sin ‘BODY / OWNER / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’◦tii ‘body’Sun J 85 ChGl: 84
Cite this entry
STEDT etymon #1125,
*ti ‘BODY’.Stable link:
https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1125Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: Ch. chars.; ?⪤?*tši, GSR 597i
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-1125,
title = {{*ti 'BODY'}},
author = {STEDT},
year = {2017},
note = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1125},
url = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1125}
}