*di

FAT

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

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Connections

Poss. allofam*tsil ‘FAT (n.) / GREASE / OIL’

Notes

This root closely resembles #48 PTB *tsil FAT (n.) / GREASE / OIL, but Magar si-di (where the first syllable is assigned to tsil) seems to indicate that two separate roots are involved.

Reflexes & cognates16 reflexes · 5 subgroups

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)2

Lotha NagaEprefix◦thyu ‘fat’also contains *tsow-sNienu 90 LotQ: 8.3

Lotha Nagati◦tchhü#1631 PTB *tsyu ‘WATER / LIQUID / BODY FLUID’PCN *a-tʃə ‘WATER’TGTM * ᴮkjui ‘WATER’ ‘oil’Marrison 67 Naga: 511

2.3.4Western Kiranti2

HayutIː◦womorpheme ‘fat / oil / grease’Matisoff 87 BP

Hayutɩː◦womorpheme n‘fat, grease’Michailovsky 89 H2: 84.257

2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang8

Chepangrawmorpheme.sa#60 PTB *saːw ‘FAT (n.) / GREASE / OIL / SWEAT’PKC *thaaw ‘FAT / GREASE’PTk *tʰaw ‘FAT’.ti n.‘oil (sp.), of mustard plant’Caughley 00 Chepang

Chepangrawmorpheme.sa#60 PTB *saːw ‘FAT (n.) / GREASE / OIL / SWEAT’PKC *thaaw ‘FAT / GREASE’PTk *tʰaw ‘FAT’.tiʔ n.‘stale (mustard) oil’Caughley 00 Chepang

Chepangrəwmorpheme.sa#60 PTB *saːw ‘FAT (n.) / GREASE / OIL / SWEAT’PKC *thaaw ‘FAT / GREASE’PTk *tʰaw ‘FAT’.ti n.‘oil from first pressing’Caughley 00 Chepang

Chepangrəwmorpheme.sa#60 PTB *saːw ‘FAT (n.) / GREASE / OIL / SWEAT’PKC *thaaw ‘FAT / GREASE’PTk *tʰaw ‘FAT’.tiʔ n.‘oil from first pressing’Caughley 00 Chepang

Chepangsa#60 PTB *saːw ‘FAT (n.) / GREASE / OIL / SWEAT’PKC *thaaw ‘FAT / GREASE’PTk *tʰaw ‘FAT’.tiʔ n.‘oil’Caughley 00 Chepang

Chepangsa#60 PTB *saːw ‘FAT (n.) / GREASE / OIL / SWEAT’PKC *thaaw ‘FAT / GREASE’PTk *tʰaw ‘FAT’◦ti ‘oil’Caughley 72 CVoc: 7.A.9

Chepang (Eastern)sa#60 PTB *saːw ‘FAT (n.) / GREASE / OIL / SWEAT’PKC *thaaw ‘FAT / GREASE’PTk *tʰaw ‘FAT’◦ti ‘oil / grease (for cooking)’Caughley 90 CheQ: 8.3.2

Magarsi#48 PTB *tsil ‘FAT (n.) / GREASE / OIL’◦di ‘fat (of body)’Weidert 87 TBTo: 728

3.2Qiangic1

Qiang (Mawo)zdi ‘fat’This form bares a suspicious resemblance to Qiang (Mawo) zda, which has been assigned to #1450 PTB *s-da FAT. However, since the Qiangic languages have a strong tendency to develop the high front vowel i from PTB *a, a phenomenon which has been referred to as “brightening”, these two Mawo forms may actually one and the same etymon.Sun J 86 Mawo

9.0.1Old Chinese3

Chinese (Old/Mid)di̯u/i̯umorpheme ‘fat on belly; intestines; fat’Chou 72

Chinese (Old/Mid)di̯u/i̯umorpheme ‘fat on belly, intestines, fat’Karlgren 57 GSR: 126e

Chinese (Old/Mid)di̯ər/i ‘fat (over the stomach)’Chou 72: 551

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1439, *di ‘FAT’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1439

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-1439,
  title  = {{*di 'FAT'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1439},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1439}
}