Reconstruction analysis
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Intermediate reconstructions
Northern Naga/Konyakian*jan ‘STRONG / FIRM / STEADFAST’
Lolo-Burmese*zan¹ ‘STRONG / FIRM’
Connections
HPTB*b-tsan ‘strong / firm’p. 260
Notes
We set up this root with an initial affricate to accommodate the Tibetan and Northern Naga forms. At the PLB level, the initial had simplified to a sibilant, a development which is replicated in scattered forms elsewhere, e.g. Sangtam a ze and Kayan Pekon sên.
Reflexes & cognates25 reflexes · 11 subgroups
0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)2
1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)1
1.7.2Northern Naga/Konyakian2
1.7.2.1Tangsa-Nocte10
1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang1
2.1.2.1Tibetan1
Tibetan (Written)btsan-posuffix ‘strong, mighty, powerful; firm, staunch, immovable; safe, sure; definite’“... staunch, immovable; safe, sure; definite, decided.” Matisoff 85 GSTC: 016
6.1Lolo-Burmese2
6.1.1Burmish4
6.1.2.2Central Loloish3
6.1.2.3Southern Loloish3
7Karenic2
Kayan (Pekon)âumorpheme◦sên◦âumorpheme◦klə̤̀nmorpheme Velab‘stable and firm, solid’Manson 10 Kayan
Cite this entry
STEDT etymon #159,
*b-tsan ‘STRONG / FIRM / STEADFAST’.Stable link:
https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/159Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. HPTB, GSTC
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-159,
title = {{*b-tsan 'STRONG / FIRM / STEADFAST'}},
author = {STEDT},
year = {2017},
note = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #159},
url = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/159}
}