Reconstruction analysis
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Intermediate reconstructions
Lolo-Burmese*N-day³ ‘LEVEL EXPANSE / PLAIN’
Connections
HPTB (PLB)*m-day³ ‘zone / expanse of territory’p. 211
HPTB*m/s-taːy ‘belt / zone / waist’pp. 210, 220
Notes
This root may well be related to #519 PTB *s-tay NAVEL / ABDOMEN / CENTER / SELF, with which it has an obvious semantic connection, as well as a nearly identical phonological form.
Chinese comparandum
Definitely cognate is the following:
帶 OC *tɑ̂d, GSR #315a ‘girdle, sash; carry at the girdle’; B & S 2011: *C.tˤat-s {C.tˤa[t]-s}; Mand. dài;
The modern word also means ‘zone; area’, e.g. 熱帶, Mand. rèdài, ‘torrid zone’).
Reflexes & cognates77 reflexes · 19 subgroups
0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1
1.1.2Deng2
1.2Kuki-Chin1
1.2.1.1Northern Chin3
1.2.2Central Chin8
1.2.3Maraic1
1.5Mikir [Karbi]1
1.7.1.1Bodo2
2.1.2.1Tibetan1
3.2Qiangic7
3.3rGyalrongic4
6.1Lolo-Burmese
The nasal prefix in Lolo-Burmese *N-day³ is directly attested in several Yi dialects, as well as indirectly by the Lahu voiced initial.
6.1.2.1Northern Loloish8
6.1.2.2Central Loloish10
Lahu (Black)de ‘belt of land lying between the high rain-forest and the plains; large expanse of terrain’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 095
Lisu (Northern)wa²¹morphemedi³³ wa²¹morphemejiʔ²¹morpheme ‘large plain; large piece of flat land’Bradley 94 Lisu
6.1.2.3Southern Loloish18
6.2Naxi7
9Sinitic2
9.0.1Old Chinese1
9.0.2Middle Chinese1
9.0.3Modern Chinese1
Cite this entry
STEDT etymon #1373,
*s-daːy ‘WAIST / BELT / ZONE / FLAT EXPANSE’.Stable link:
https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1373Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-1373,
title = {{*s-daːy 'WAIST / BELT / ZONE / FLAT EXPANSE'}},
author = {STEDT},
year = {2017},
note = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1373},
url = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1373}
}