*s-mu

HATCH / BROOD ON EGGS / SIT ON

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

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Connections

HPTB (PLB)*ʔ-mu² ‘brood / incubate’pp. 112, 180

HPTB*ʔu ‘egg / sit on eggs’p. 199

Notes

This root is most abundantly attested in Loloish, with likely cognates in Galo, Bodo-Garo, and Chepang. The very-low tone in Lahu mū (Matisoff 1988, The Dictionary of Lahu, p. 1005), as well as the Lalo form ʔmò, point to a Proto-Loloish *ʔ- prefix, ultimately from prefixal *s-.

The constriction in Yi Mojiang is perhaps due to the *ʔ- prefix.

Reflexes & cognates21 reflexes · 7 subgroups

1.1.1.1Western Tani1

Galomɯ-namsuffix v‘brood’Das Gupta 63 Gal

1.7.1.3Koch3

Atongmu•- v‘stay, to sit (be in sitting position), to sit down, to be at, to live somewhere’van Breugel 08 Atong

Atongmu•dap- v‘sit on’morphemevan Breugel 08 Atong

Atongmu◦ramorpheme n‘stool (to sit on)’van Breugel 08 Atong

2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang3

Chepangmu-samorpheme ‘sit (stay)’Caughley 72 CVoc: 6.B.3.8

Chepangmu-ʔomorpheme ‘stationary / sit (MM)’Caughley 72 CVoc: 12.C.38

MagarTokorokmorpheme mu-kemorpheme ‘sit’Hale 73 CSD: 01.068

6.1Lolo-Burmese1

*Lolo-Burmeseʔprefix-mu² ‘brood / incubate’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 602

6.1.2Loloish1

*Loloishʔprefix-mu² ‘hatch’Matisoff 93 PC

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish6

Laloʔmò ‘incubate / sit on egg’Björverud 94

Yi (Mile)mu⁵⁵ ‘hatch’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 786.25

Yi (Mojiang)mu̱³³ ‘hatch’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 786.26

Yi (Nanhua)mɯ⁵⁵ ‘hatch’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 786.24

Yi (Nanjian)m̩(u̪)²¹ ‘hatch’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 786.23

Yi (Nanjian)mu̪²¹ ‘sit on, hatch (egg)’Chen 85 YiJZ

6.1.2.2Central Loloish8

Lahu (Black)mū ‘brood; sit on eggs’Matisoff 88 DL: 1005

Lahu (Black)mv̩³¹ ‘hatch (a chick)’Chang 86

Lahu (Yellow)mv̩¹¹ ‘hatch (a chick)’Chang 86

Lisu (Central)mū⁴ v.‘hatch’Fraser 22

Lisu (Nujiang)mu⁵⁵ ‘sit on (egg)’Xu 86 Lisu

Lisumu⁵⁵ ‘hatch’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 786.27

Lisu (Northern)my⁵⁵ V‘hatch’Bradley 94 Lisu

Sani [Nyi]mɣ⁵⁵ v‘sit on (eggs) (fuluan)’Ma 89 SanQ: 309.1

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1234, *s-mu ‘HATCH / BROOD ON EGGS / SIT ON’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1234

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-1234,
  title  = {{*s-mu 'HATCH / BROOD ON EGGS / SIT ON'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1234},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1234}
}