STEDT #113

*wan

HUNGRY

Reconstruction analysis

handleweninitialwrhymeencoverL · N

Notes

This root requires further confirmation, but looks fairly solid. The Kayan form shows a velar prefix.

This root looks rather similar to #122 PTB *wat THIRSTY, but we are keeping them separate for now. The present root seems always to mean ‘hungry’ while #122 PTB *wat THIRSTY apparently always means ‘thirsty’.

Reflexes & cognates11 reflexes · 4 subgroups

1NE Indian Areal Group1

Mijifen-ci#101 PTB *si(p) ‘THIRSTY / HUNGRY’PLB *C-sipᴸ ‘THIRSTY’ ‘hungry’Simon 79 Miji

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)4

Lotha Nagavon◦tonmorpheme- be v.‘hungry’Bruhn 14 SuppCN

Lotha Nagavon̯◦d̯ón̯morpheme ‘hungry’Acharya 75

Lotha NagaWoN◦doNmorpheme◦Aprefix be‘hungry’Nienu 90 LotQ: 3.7.9

Lotha Nagawon◦tonmorpheme◦sangamorpheme ‘hungry’Marrison 67 Naga

1.3.4Tangkhulic2

Tangkhulwan ‘hungry’Bhat 69 TNV: 91

Ukhrulkʰəprefix-wan be v.‘hungry due to having no food’Mortensen 12 Tk

7Karenic4

Karentθa³¹#32 PTB *m-sak ‘BREATH(E) / LIFE’PCN *sak ‘BREATH’wi³¹ v.‘hungry, be’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1298.50

Kayan (Pekon)θà#32 PTB *m-sak ‘BREATH(E) / LIFE’PCN *sak ‘BREATH’◦gwí̤ ADJ‘hungry, famished’Manson 10 Kayan

Karen (Sgaw/Hinthada)tθa³¹#32 PTB *m-sak ‘BREATH(E) / LIFE’PCN *sak ‘BREATH’ wi³¹ ‘hungry’Dai 89 KarB: 1858

Karen (Sgaw/Yue)θa³³#32 PTB *m-sak ‘BREATH(E) / LIFE’PCN *sak ‘BREATH’ wi³³ ‘hungry’Dai 89 KarA: 1858

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #113, *wan ‘HUNGRY’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/113

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-113,
  title  = {{*wan 'HUNGRY'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #113},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/113}
}