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STEDT #1279

*kap

FORK / BRANCH / CROTCH / GROIN

Reconstruction analysis

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Connections

HPTB*kap ‘fork / crotch / groin’pp. 336, 340, 341
See alsoCROTCH

Chinese comparandum

OC *ki̯ɑp, GSR #630f ‘chopsticks’; Schuessler 2007:300 (*krêp); B & S 2011: *kˁ‹r›ep; Mand. jiā.

Comment: Cf. comparanda for #6186 PTB *gyap NARROW / CROWDED.

Reflexes & cognates3 reflexes · 3 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)3

*Tibeto-Burmankap ‘groin / fork (legs)’Weidert 87 TBTo: 1098
*Tibeto-Burmankap ‘fork / crotch / groin’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 595
*Tibeto-Burmankap ‘fork (of legs); groin’Benedict 72 STC: 338

1.2.2Central Chin2

Lushai [Mizo]kap ‘fork of the legs’Benedict 72 STC: 338
Lushai [Mizo]kap v.‘gag, wedge open’Benedict 72 STC: 338

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1279, *kap ‘FORK / BRANCH / CROTCH / GROIN’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1279
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. STC#338, HPTB pp.336, 340, 341; incl 2298
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-1279,
  title  = {{*kap 'FORK / BRANCH / CROTCH / GROIN'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1279},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1279}
}