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STEDT #122

*wat

THIRSTY
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handlewatinitialwrhymeat⪤wetcoverL · WT

Notes

This root seems fairly solid. The final -p in Athpare seems to be due to assimilation to the labial nasal in the following syllable. Kulung wam ma siy-a shows complete assimilation to the initial of the second syllable.

The second syllable of Bantawa cak-wa-sü- and the first syllable of Limbu P-wa miːkt- seem to descend from an independent root #2080 PTB *r/s/g-wa WATER / RAIN.

This root looks rather similar to #113 PTB *wan HUNGRY, but we are keeping them separate for now. The present root seems always to mean ‘thirsty’ while #113 PTB *wan HUNGRY apparently always means ‘hungry’.

Reflexes & cognates12 reflexes · 7 subgroups

1.1“North Assam”1

Sulung [Puroik]lok³³morphemevəʴt³³ ‘thirsty’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 898.52

1.5Mikir [Karbi]2

Mikir [Karbi]ingprefix◦'ìt- be v.‘thirsty’Grüssner 79 BP: 17
Mikir [Karbi]ingprefix◦it ‘thirsty’Marrison 67 Naga

2.3.1Eastern Kiranti2

Athpare (Rai)wep◦mamorpheme simamorpheme be v.‘thirsty’Ebert 97 Athpare
Yakhaweʔ◦masuffix siːmorpheme◦maːsuffix be‘thirsty’Kohn 90: 3.7.8

2.3.2Southern Kiranti2

BantawawaT◦masuffix ‘thirst’Rai 85 BnDs
Kulungwam◦mamorpheme siymorpheme-amorpheme vs.‘thirsty’Rai 75 Kul

3.2Qiangic3

Muyati³³morphemeβi⁵⁵ v.‘thirsty, be’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1478.15
Muya [Minyak]ti³³morphemevi⁵³ be‘thirsty’Sun H 91 MuyQ: 3.7.8
Muya [Minyak]ti³³morphemevi⁵³ ‘thirsty’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 898.15

3.3rGyalrongic1

3.3.1rGyalrong1

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #122, *wat ‘THIRSTY’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/122
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: ↭ *s-wi
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-122,
  title  = {{*wat 'THIRSTY'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #122},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/122}
}