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*d/s-pəy

WAIST / HIPS / LOWER BACK / BUTTOCKS / TAIL
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handlepyiinitialp(y)rhymeicoverP · V

Connections

Poss. allofam#226

Notes

A possible Chinese comparandum is 屁 Mand. pì (cf. Mand. 放屁 fàngpì ‘to fart’ and 辟谷 pìgǔ ‘buttocks’), although it is not clear whether it is attested in Old Chinese.

Chinese comparandum

髀 OC *pi̯ĕg ~ *bieg, GSR #874f ‘thighbone, haunch’; Schuessler 2007:164 *peʔ ~ *bêʔ; B & S 2011: (*beʔ); Mand. bì.

Reflexes & cognates100 reflexes · 26 subgroups

1.2.1.1Northern Chin1

Tiddimphei ‘groin / loins’Matisoff 87 BP

1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin1

Khumiphai ‘groin / loins’Matisoff 87 BP

1.2.4“Old Kuki”1

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)3

Lotha Nagaoprefix◦phi ‘groin / loins / hips’Nienu 90 LotQ: 1.10

1.3.2Angami-Pochuri Group1

Maooprefix◦pfe ‘back (body)’Marrison 67 Naga

1.7.1.1Bodo1

Bodotamorpheme◦pi◦lamorpheme ‘buttock’Matisoff 87 BP

1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang2

Changphe◦lomorpheme ‘hip’Marrison 67 Naga
Changpʰe lomorpheme ‘hip’French 83: 522

2.1.1Western Himalayish3

Kanauripi◦s̱ẖṭiṅ#203 PTB *s-nu(ŋ/k) ‘BACK / BEHIND / AFTER’PKC *nuŋ ⪤ *hnuŋ ‘BACK / BEHIND / LATER’ n‘back’Kanauri regularly develops a cluster st- from the PTB sequence *sn-, see HPTB:103. The -i- vocalism of Kanauri ṣṭiṅ is probably explicable in terms of the widespread TB variational pattern of *-u- ⪤ -i-, cf. HPTB:493-505.Bailey 11

2.1.2Bodic5

Tsangla (Central)shammorpheme=pi ‘tail’Andvik 93: 92
Tsangla (Motuo)ɕammorpheme pi ‘tail’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 177.7
Tsangla (Motuo)ɕam⁵⁵morpheme pi⁵⁵ ‘tail’Zhang Jichuan 86
Tsangla (Motuo)ɕammorpheme◦pi ‘tail’Sun H 80 MLD
Tsangla (Tilang)ɕammorpheme-pʰi ‘tail’Zhang Jichuan 86

2.3.1Eastern Kiranti1

Limbuphoi ‘waist’Matisoff 87 BP

3.3.1rGyalrong1

rGyalrong (NW)təmorpheme◦xpi ɕemorpheme ‘rump’Sun H 91 rNW: 5.10

4Nungic2

Trung [Dulong]nɯ³¹morpheme pi⁵⁵ ‘buttocks’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 262.46
Trung [Dulong] (Dulonghe)nɯ³¹morpheme pi⁵⁵ ‘buttocks’Sun H 82 Dul

5Tujia5

Tujiapei³⁵ ‘back’Chen 86 TuBQ: 5.5
Tujia (Northern)pei³⁵ ‘back (of body)’Tian 86
Tujiapi⁵⁵ tʰa⁵⁵morpheme ‘lap’Chen 86 TuBQ: 1.8
Tujiapɯi⁵⁵ ‘back (of body)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 258.38

6.1.1Burmish12

6.1.2Loloish1

Lolophophi³¹ se³³morpheme xo³¹morpheme ‘rump’Dai 89 Lolo: 5.10

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish22

Nusu (Southern)pʰi⁵⁵ pa³¹suffix ‘buttocks’Sun J 86 Nusu
Yi (Xide)pʰɿ²¹nbi²¹morpheme ‘buttocks’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 262.21

9Sinitic1

Chinese (Hanzi)屁◦股／肛门morpheme ‘buttocks’Nagano 2013 rGyDB: 0134

9.0.3Modern Chinese1

Chinese (Mandarin)pì◦gǔmorpheme ‘buttocks’Evans 91

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1361, *d/s-pəy ‘WAIST / HIPS / LOWER BACK / BUTTOCKS / TAIL’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1361
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-1361,
  title  = {{*d/s-pəy 'WAIST / HIPS / LOWER BACK / BUTTOCKS / TAIL'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1361},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1361}
}