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STEDT #1383

*m/b-yit

HEART / LIVER / MIND
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handleyetprefixb/minitialyrhymeetcoverL · T

Intermediate reconstructions

Tani*mit-pran ‘FORGET’JS-HCST: 377; cf. ORPHAN, EXTINGUISHED

Notes

This etymon was reconstructed as b-yet ⪤ m-yet in VSTB:211, but was inadvertently omitted from HPTB.

Reflexes & cognates36 reflexes · 11 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmanb-yet ⪤ m-yet ‘heart / liver / mind’Matisoff 78 VSTB

1.1.1Tani1

*Tanimit-pranmorpheme ‘forget’[Source note] (see ‘orphan’).Sun J 93 HCST: 165

1.1.1.1Western Tani4

Bokarmit-pen ‘forget’Sun J 93 HCST
Bokarmit-pen ‘forget’Sun J 93 Tani

1.1.1.2Eastern Tani4

Damumip-panmorpheme-tomorpheme-mit ‘forget’Sun J 93 Tani
Damumit-panmorpheme-duŋ ‘forgetful’Sun J 93 Tani
Damumit-panmorpheme-ɟeʔ ‘forget’Sun J 93 Tani

1.7.3.1Jingpho6

Jingphomyit ‘think’Marrison 67 Naga
Jingphomyìt ‘mind, seat of emotions’morphemeMatisoff 78 VSTB
Jingphomyìt thènmorpheme ‘discouraged’Matisoff 74 TJLB: 99
Jingphomyìt thùmmorpheme ‘exhausted in mind, discouraged’Matisoff 74 TJLB: 37

2.1.3Lepcha1

Lepchaaprefix-byet ‘liver’Matisoff 78 VSTB

2.3.1Eastern Kiranti1

Limbunariloanword◦bet ‘heart’Matisoff 78 VSTB

4Nungic2

Anongmit/nit ‘mind, temper’Benedict 72 STC: 29n93
Anongmit~nit ‘mind, temper’Matisoff 78 VSTB

6.1.1Burmish6

Atsi [Zaiwa]myit³¹ ‘think, remember’LaPolla 87: 92

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1383, *m/b-yit ‘HEART / LIVER / MIND’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1383
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-1383,
  title  = {{*m/b-yit 'HEART / LIVER / MIND'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1383},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1383}
}