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STEDT #1266

*kway

MOUSTACHE / BEARD

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handlekwayinitialkwrhymeaycoverK · W

Reflexes & cognates9 reflexes · 3 subgroups

1.4Meithei7

Meitheihameŋmorpheme məmorpheme◦koy ‘goatee’Singh 91 MeiQ: 8.1.2.2

Meitheikô-î ‘beard’Matisoff 87 BP

Meitheikoi ‘beard’Marrison 67 Naga

Meitheikoy ‘moustache / beard’Abbi 85

Meitheikoy ‘moustache’Singh 91 MeiQ: 8.1.2.3

Meitheikoy (khə#273 PTB *m/s-k(w)a-y ‘MOUTH / OPENING / SPREAD / DOOR / FACE / JAW’PKC *kaa ‘ENTRANCE / MOUTH’PKC *kaa ⪤ *khaa ‘CHIN / JAW (lower)’PCN *ka ‘GAPE, OPEN MOUTH’PTk *ka ‘OPEN (MOUTH)’PTk *kʰa ‘CHIN / JAW’PKar *kaᴮ ‘CHIN, JAW’◦daŋ#286 PTB *l/m-da(n/ŋ) ‘CHIN / CHEEK’-gisuffix) ‘beard’Singh 91 MeiQ: 8.1.2.1

Meitheina#803 PTB *s-na ⪤ *s-naːr ‘NOSE’PKC *hnaar ‘NOSE’PCN *na(ʔ) ‘NOSE’PTk *na ‘NOSE’TGTM *ᴬʰna ‘NOSE’◦tonmorpheme-gisuffix koy ‘nose hair’Singh 91 MeiQ: 3.5.4

3.3rGyalrongic1

Ergong (Northern)jɛ³³morpheme kɐ⁵³morpheme kʰɐ³³ spə⁵³#1228 PTB *s-pu ‘FEATHER / WING / HAIR (body)’ ‘moustache’Sun H 91 ErNQ: 8.1.2.3

6.1.1Burmish1

Burmese (Written)kraŋmorpheme-khway ‘lower extremity of moustaches’Matisoff 87 BP

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1266, *kway ‘MOUSTACHE / BEARD’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1266

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-1266,
  title  = {{*kway 'MOUSTACHE / BEARD'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1266},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1266}
}