*bwap

CALF / LEG

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

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Connections

Allofams

1a #163 *s-bʷa(m/p) ‘SWELL / SWOLLEN / FAT / THICK / ROUNDED PART’
1b #1317 *bwap ‘CALF / LEG’

HPTB*bop ‘calf of leg’p. 381

Poss. allofams*s-bʷa(m/p) ‘SWELL / SWOLLEN / FAT / THICK / ROUNDED PART’, *l/m-ba ‘GOITER’

Notes

This root is only one allofam of a complex word family, including *s-bwam ‘plump / swollen’, set up as a separate root in STC #172. This allofamy was recognized in LTSR #92, which reconstructs PLB *m-pwap ⪤ *C-pwam ‘swell up / be swollen / stout / calf of leg’.

Reflexes & cognates6 reflexes · 4 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)3

*Tibeto-Burmanbop ‘calf (leg) (2)’Weidert 87 TBTo: 1091

*Tibeto-Burmanbop ‘calf of leg’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 585

*Tibeto-Burmanbop ‘calf of the leg’Benedict 72 STC: 30

1.2.2Central Chin3

Lushai [Mizo]bop ‘leg / hind leg (animal)’Weidert 87 TBTo: 1091

Lushai [Mizo]bop ‘leg’Matisoff 87 BP

Lushai [Mizo]bop ‘leg, hind leg of an animal’Benedict 72 STC: 30

1.7.3.1Jingpho2

Jingphobop ⪤ ləprefix◦bop ‘calf of the leg’Benedict 72 STC: 30

Jingpho¹lə#350 PTB *la ‘LEG / FOOT’MesorootsPTani *lə (~ *le?) ‘LEG’Allofams1 #377 PTB *lak ⪤ *C-yak ‘ARM / HAND / WING’1a #695 PTB *lak ‘HAND/LIMB’1b #696 PTB *yak ‘ARM / HAND / ARMPIT / TICKLE’1c #699 PTB *d-yak ‘HAND / ARM / LEAF’1d #700 PTB *dak ‘ARM / HAND’1e #702 PTB *g-yak ‘ARM / HAND / CUBIT’1f #705 PTB *p-yak ‘ARM’1g #350 PTB *la ‘LEG / FOOT’1h #375 PTB *ya ‘LEG / FOOT’1i #888 PTB *d-ya OR *g-ya ‘FOOT’¹bop ‘calf (leg)(2)’Weidert 87 TBTo: 1091

2.1.3Lepcha1

Lepcha(ăprefix-)bop ‘large (as belly)’Benedict 72 STC: 30

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1317, *bwap ‘CALF / LEG’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1317

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

References: STC#030, HPTB p.381

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-1317,
  title  = {{*bwap 'CALF / LEG'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1317},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1317}
}