*m-tsan

MARK / BADGE / GENITALS

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handletsanprefixminitialtsrhymeancoverTS · N

Intermediate reconstructions

Kuki-Chin*tshan ‘GENERATION / ERA’PKC #589

Notes

The rGyalrong form is likely to be a borrowing from Tibetan.

The putative semantic connection between Kuki-Chin GENERATION / ERA and the Tibetan form rests on the idea that a particular generation is marked by a certain characteristic.

Reflexes & cognates9 reflexes · 5 subgroups

1.2Kuki-Chin1

*Chintshan ‘GENERATION / ERA’VanBik 09 PKC: 589

Tibetan (Written)mtshan-masuffix n.‘mark, token, badge, symptom’Jäschke 1881: 454

Tibetan (Written)p'o#1635 PTB *pu ‘MALE / MASCULINE SUFFIX’-mtʻsan ‘membrum virile (male-token; badge)’Matisoff 87 BP: 85

Tibetan (Written)pho#1635 PTB *pu ‘MALE / MASCULINE SUFFIX’ mtshan n‘genitals (male)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0116.01

3.3.1rGyalrong1

rGyalrong (Eastern)tsʰan pasuffix ‘genitalia / pudenda (general)’Sun H 91 rEQ: 10.1

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1155, *m-tsan ‘MARK / BADGE / GENITALS’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1155

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

References: see Jaschke p. 454

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-1155,
  title  = {{*m-tsan 'MARK / BADGE / GENITALS'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1155},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1155}
}