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STEDT #131

*g/r-nyit

SLEEP / NOD

Proto-Tibeto-Burman · exemplary

Reconstruction analysis

handleg/r-prefixg/rinitialnyrhymeitcoverM · T

Connections

HPTB*g/r-nyiːt ‘sleep / nod’pp. 36, 350

HPTB*yit ‘drunk’p. 349

See also#2521

Reflexes & cognates16 reflexes · 5 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)2

*Tibeto-Burmang/r-nyiːt ‘sleep / nod’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 605

*Tibeto-Burmann(y)it ‘nod’Benedict 72 STC: 236

2.1.2.1Tibetan12

Tibetan (Lhasa)ȵiʔ⁵³sɛʔ⁵³morpheme ‘wake up’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 583.2

Tibetan (Lhasa)ȵi⁵² sɛ⁵²morpheme v.‘wake up’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1739.02

Spitiñik n‘sleep’Bodh 91: 1.16

Spitiñik sa#150 PTB *s(y)a ‘AWAKE’◦cemorpheme ‘awake / be awake’Bodh 91: 1.17

Tibetan (Spiti)ɲit ‘sleep’Sharma, S.R. 79 Sp

Tibetan (Written)gńid ‘sleep’Matisoff 83 TIL: 59

Tibetan (Written)gnid sadmorpheme v.‘wake up’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1739.01

Tibetan (Written)gnyid ‘sleep’Benedict 72 STC: 236

Tibetan (Written)gnyid sad#1018 PTB *g/b-sat ‘KILL’PKC *that-I, -thaʔ-II ‘KILL’PTk *tʰat ‘KILL’PNN *ʔsot ‘KILL’PLB *C-sat ‘KILL’ (gsod)#1018 PTB *g/b-sat ‘KILL’PKC *that-I, -thaʔ-II ‘KILL’PTk *tʰat ‘KILL’PNN *ʔsot ‘KILL’PLB *C-sat ‘KILL’-pasuffix ‘waken’Matisoff PC

Tibetan (Written)gnyid sad#5769 PTB *swat ‘AWAKE’-pasuffix v‘wake up’Jäschke 1881

Tibetan (Written)gȵid sad#5769 PTB *swat ‘AWAKE’ ‘wake up’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 583.1

Tibetan (Written)rnyid-pasuffix ‘wither, fade’Benedict 72 STC: 236

3.3.1rGyalrong1

rGyalrong (Northern)ȵi◦sŋər̥#1784 PTB *s-ŋwar ‘SNORE / BREATHE HEAVILY’PCC *hnaar ‘SNORE’PTk *ŋar ‘SNORE’ ‘snore’Sun H 91 rNQ: 11.4

5Tujia1

Tujiane³⁵ kʰɯ⁵⁵morpheme ze⁵⁵morpheme ‘snore’Chen 86 TuBQ: 11.4

6.1.1Burmish2

Burmese (Written)ñit ‘nod the head; lean a little, as a post’Benedict 76 WBur

Burmese (Written)ńit ‘nod the head; lean a little, as a post it)’Benedict 72 STC: 236

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #131, *g/r-nyit ‘SLEEP / NOD’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/131

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

References: cf. STC#236, HPTB pp. 36, 350

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-131,
  title  = {{*g/r-nyit 'SLEEP / NOD'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #131},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/131}
}