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STEDT #1458

hyak ⪤ hwak

SCRATCH

Proto-Tibeto-Burman · exemplary

Reconstruction analysis

handlehyakinitialhyrhymeakcoverH · T

Intermediate reconstructions

Tani*ɦok ‘SCRATCH (to stop an itch)’JS-HCST: 109

Connections

HPTB*hyak ‘scratch’pp. 65, 323

See alsoITCH

Reflexes & cognates28 reflexes · 10 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)2

*Tibeto-Burmanhyak ‘scratch’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 594

*Tibeto-Burmanhyak ‘scratch’Benedict 72 STC: 230

1.1.1Tani1

*Taniɦok ‘scratch (to stop an itch)’Sun J 93 HCST: 337

1.1.1.1Western Tani16

Apataniáprefix-ha#1457 PTB *m-sak ‘ITCH’PTani *fak ‘ITCH’PKC *thak-I, -thaʔ-II ‘ITCH / ITCHY’PCN *m-sak ‘ITCH (v.)’PCN *m-ʃak ‘SCRATCH (v.)’PKar *saɁᴰ ‘ITCHY’ ho-sumorpheme ‘scratch’Sun J 93 Tani

Apataniaprefix-haʔ#1457 PTB *m-sak ‘ITCH’PTani *fak ‘ITCH’PKC *thak-I, -thaʔ-II ‘ITCH / ITCHY’PCN *m-sak ‘ITCH (v.)’PCN *m-ʃak ‘SCRATCH (v.)’PKar *saɁᴰ ‘ITCHY’-ho-sumorpheme ‘itch’Sun J 93 Tani

Apataniaprefix-ǰimorpheme hoʔ ‘scrape v. (~field)’Sun J 93 Tani

Apatanihoʔ ‘scratch (to stop an itch)’Sun J 93 HCST

Apatanihoʔ-kʰrjomorpheme hoʔ-ljomorpheme ‘scratch’Sun J 93 Tani

Bengniaprefix-fak#1457 PTB *m-sak ‘ITCH’PTani *fak ‘ITCH’PKC *thak-I, -thaʔ-II ‘ITCH / ITCHY’PCN *m-sak ‘ITCH (v.)’PCN *m-ʃak ‘SCRATCH (v.)’PKar *saɁᴰ ‘ITCHY’ uk ‘scratch (itch)’Sun J 93 Tani

Bengniuk ‘scratch (to stop an itch)’Sun J 93 HCST

Bengniuk ‘dig with claw (dog)’Sun J 93 Tani

Bengniuk ‘scratch, claw’Sun J 93 Tani

Bokar(ak)#1457 PTB *m-sak ‘ITCH’PTani *fak ‘ITCH’PKC *thak-I, -thaʔ-II ‘ITCH / ITCHY’PCN *m-sak ‘ITCH (v.)’PCN *m-ʃak ‘SCRATCH (v.)’PKar *saɁᴰ ‘ITCHY’ ɦok v.‘scratch (an itch)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1530.24

Bokarhok ‘scratch (to stop an itch)’Sun J 93 HCST

Bokarhok ‘pick, gouge’Sun J 93 Tani

Bokarhok ‘scratch’Sun J 93 Tani

Bokarhok-setmorpheme ‘scratch’Sun J 93 Tani

Galoog◦namsuffix vt.‘itch’GLDC 09 Galo

Galook-simorpheme-namsuffix v‘scratch’Das Gupta 63 Gal

1.1.1.2Eastern Tani4

Padam-Mishing [Abor-Miri]ok ‘scratch (to stop an itch)’Sun J 93 HCST

Damuxak ‘itch’Sun J 93 Tani

Damuɦak ‘scratch (to stop an itch)’Sun J 93 Tani

Milanghok-masuffix ‘scratch’Tayeng 76 Mil

1.2.2Central Chin1

Lushai [Mizo]hiat v.‘scratch’Benedict 72 STC: 230

1.4Meithei2

Meitheiha◦gəmorpheme◦jə#1456 PTB *g-ya ‘ITCH’PKC *yaa-I, yaat-II ‘ITCH / TICKLE’ v.‘itch / be itchy’Singh 91 MeiQ: 8.2.3.10

Meitheiha◦kəmorpheme◦cə#1456 PTB *g-ya ‘ITCH’PKC *yaa-I, yaat-II ‘ITCH / TICKLE’◦bəsuffix v.‘itch / be itchy’Singh 91 MeiQ: 8.2.3.10

1.7.1.2Garo1

Garoak-brit#2615 PTB *riːt ‘REAP / SCRAPE / SHAVE / CUT / SEVER’-asuffix v.‘scratch’Weidert 87 TBTo: 701

2.3.1Eastern Kiranti1

Limbuuːk- v.‘scratch (esp. an itch)’Michailovsky 89 Lm

3.2Qiangic1

Pumi (Taoba)xa³⁵ mə⁵³morpheme ‘itch’Lu 83 Pumi

6.1.1Burmish2

Burmese (Written)yak ‘strike with stroke toward one's self; scratch’Benedict 76 WBur

Burmese (Written)yak ‘strike with a stroke toward one's self, scratch’Benedict 72 STC: 230

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1458, *hyak ⪤ *hwak ‘SCRATCH’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1458

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

References: STC#230 incl 3033,3152?

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-1458,
  title  = {{*hyak ⪤ *hwak 'SCRATCH'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1458},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1458}
}