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STEDT #1623

*k/m-na

MOTHER / FEMALE
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handlenaprefixminitialnrhymeacoverM · V

Connections

HPTB*m-na ‘mother’p. 173
Allofam*ma ‘FEMALE / MOTHER / PRINCIPAL PART / FEMININE SUFFIX’

Notes

The velar prefix is attested in Jingpho.

The present root seems to overlap somewhat with #5595 PTB *nya-ŋ/k WOMAN and #1621 PTB *n(y)u FEMALE / MOTHER, and further microlinguistic work will be necessary to separate them out.

Reflexes & cognates25 reflexes · 8 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)2

*Tibeto-Burman(m-)na ‘woman / lady / girl’Chou 72: 94a-e

1.2.3Maraic1

1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang3

Changaprefix-no ‘older sister’Benedict 72 STC: 187n487
Changaprefix◦nou ‘sister (elder)’Marrison 67 Naga
Changɑprefix-no ‘older sister’Chou 72: 94a-e

1.7.3.1Jingpho7

Jingphokă³¹morphemena³³ ‘sister (elder)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 334.47
Jingphokă¹morphemena³³ ‘elder sister’Liu 84
Jingphokamorpheme◦na ‘sister (elder)’Marrison 67 Naga
Jingphona ‘sister (elder)’Marrison 67 Naga
Jingphona ‘older sister’Benedict 72 STC: 187n487
Jingphona̱³³ n‘elder sister’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0227.19
Jingphonɑ ‘woman / lady / girl’Chou 72: 94a-e

2.1.1Western Himalayish7

Byangsin5a n.‘mother’Sharma 2003: 656
Byangsin5a◦gɛmorpheme n.‘mother's’Sharma 2003: 653
Byangsin5a◦namorpheme n.‘mother (term of address)’Sharma 2003: 655
Byangsinɑ ‘mother’Chou 72: 94a-e
Byangsipomorpheme◦nà: n.‘father's eldest brother's wife, mother's elder sister’Sharma 2003: 706
Byangsipumorpheme-na ‘aunt’Benedict 72 STC: 187n487

2.1.2.1Tibetan5

Tibetan (Written)mna-masuffix ‘daughter in law’Benedict 72 STC: 187n487
Tibetan (Written)mna.masuffix ‘daughter-in-law’Sun J 85 TbGl: 174
Tibetan (Written)mnaɦ masuffix n‘daughter-in-law’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0221.01
Tibetan (Written)mnaɦ◦masuffix ‘daughter-in-law’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 341.1
Tibetan (Written)mnɑ-nɑsuffix ‘daughter-in-law’Chou 72: 94a-e

2.1.4Tamangish1

Murminɑ-nɑ ‘woman / lady / girl’Chou 72: 94a-e

3.2Qiangic1

Qiang (Mianchi)ámorpheme ȵà ‘mother (direct)’Evans 99 Qiang: 276.1

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1623, *k/m-na ‘MOTHER / FEMALE’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1623
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: STC p.187
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-1623,
  title  = {{*k/m-na 'MOTHER / FEMALE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1623},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1623}
}