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STEDT #1356

*dzyuk ⪤ *tsyuk

VULVA
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

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Connections

Allofams
HPTB*dzyuk ‘vulva / vagina’p. 66

Notes

This etymon ranges semantically between VAGINA/VULVA and MOUTH/LIP. Reflexes with the latter meanings are assembled separately below as #478 PTB *tsyuk MOUTH / LIP. Another root with similar semantic range is #1349 PTB *si(ŋ/k) VAGINA [q.v.].

This etymon is well-attested in Burmish, with good-looking but scattered cognates in Loloish, the NE Indian Areal Group, and Himalayish. It seems best to reconstruct this root with a palatal (rather than dental) affricate, as demonstrated in Matisoff 1969 (cf. the discussion in STC, n. 178 (p. 53)). Some reflexes of this etymon are cited in Bauer’s far-ranging article (Bauer, R. 1991. “Sino-Tibetan *vulva”, LTBA 14.1:147-172).

See TBRS #77, #77a, #77b.

Reflexes & cognates19 reflexes · 6 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmandzyuk ‘vulva / vagina’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 589

1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang1

2.1.1Western Himalayish1

6.1Lolo-Burmese1

6.1.1Burmish16

Achang (Xiandao)cuʔ⁵⁵ ‘vagina’Dai 89 Xian: 143
Bolatʃauʔ³¹ ‘vagina’Dai 89 Bola: 143
Burmese (Written)cok ‘female private parts (vulg.)’Benedict 76 WBur
Burmese (Written)cok-ceʼmorpheme ‘vagina’Matisoff 87 BP
Burmese (Written)cok-khôŋmorpheme ‘female urethra’Matisoff 87 BP
Burmese (Written)cok-khyêmorpheme ‘vagina’Matisoff 87 BP
Burmese (Written)cok-phutmorpheme ‘vagina’Matisoff 87 BP
Hpun (Northern)zᴜ̀ʔ-màmorpheme ‘vagina / vulva’Henderson 86 Hpun
Lashitʃuʔ³¹ ‘genitalia / pudenda’Dai 89 Lash: 10.1
Maru [Langsu]tʃauk³¹ ‘genitalia / pudenda’Dai 89 Lang: 10.1

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish1

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1356, *dzyuk ⪤ *tsyuk ‘VULVA’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1356
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-1356,
  title  = {{*dzyuk ⪤ *tsyuk 'VULVA'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1356},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1356}
}