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STEDT #1635

*pu

MALE / MASCULINE SUFFIX
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · exemplary · provisional

Reconstruction analysis

handlepuinitialprhymeucoverP · V

Connections

HPTB*pu ‘male / father / grandfather’p. 24

Reflexes & cognates173 reflexes · 29 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmanpu ‘male / father / grandfather’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 607

1.1“North Assam”1

Sulung [Puroik]ha³³morphemeku³³morphemepu¹¹ ‘rooster’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 136.52

1.1.1.1Western Tani35

Apatanimimorpheme-po ‘cat’Sun J 93 Tani
Apatanimimorpheme-po ‘cat, male, tomcat’Sun J 93 Tani
Bengnilimorpheme-puː ‘cat (male)’Sun J 93 Tani
Bengnitɯːmorpheme-puː ‘quail (male)’Sun J 93 Tani
Bokardumorpheme po n‘cattle (bull-yak crossbreed, male)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0258.24
Bokardumorpheme-po ‘dzo (male)’Sun J 93 Tani
Bokarpakmorpheme-po ‘slave (male)’Sun J 93 Tani
Galoamorpheme◦po n.‘male (animal)’GLDC 09 Galo
Galokurimorpheme rimorpheme-po ‘tom cat’Das Gupta 63 Gal

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)3

Lotha NagaEprefix◦po◦esuffix ‘male’Nienu 90 LotQ: 10.3
Lotha Nagaeprefix◦pu◦esuffix ‘man (male)’Marrison 67 Naga

1.3.2Angami-Pochuri Group1

Khezhapfü◦jümorpheme ‘cock’Marrison 67 Naga

2.1.2.1Tibetan21

Tibetan (Batang)pho⁵⁵ ndɛ⁵⁵morpheme tɕhaʔ⁵³morpheme ‘male’Dai 89 Bata: 10.3
Spitiphu◦tsamorpheme ‘male’Bodh 91: 10.3
Tibetan (Spiti)pù◦tsamorpheme ‘boy’Sharma, S.R. 79 Sp
Tibetan (Written)skyɑ́rmorpheme-po ‘snipe / wood-cock’Jäschke 1881

2.1.3Lepcha1

Lepcha-bu sf.‘male of animals’Plaisier 07 Lepcha

2.1.4Tamangish1

2.3.3Central Kiranti1

Dumipamorpheme◦wœmmorpheme◦pu ‘<chicken> cockerel, cock, rooster’Driem 93 Dumi

3.2Qiangic26

Ersuɑ³³prefixpu⁵⁵ ‘grandfather’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 317.18
Guiqionga³⁵prefixpu⁵⁵ n‘grandfather’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0216.16
Guiqiongɑ⁵⁵prefixpu⁵³ ‘grandfather’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 317.17
Lyuzuæ³³prefixphu⁵³ n‘grandfather’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0216.18
Lyuzuæ³³prefixpu⁵³ n‘grandfather’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0216.18
Muyaβæ³³morphemeβə⁵³ n‘grandfather’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0216.15
Muya [Minyak]vɛ³³morphemevɯ⁵³ ‘grandfather’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 317.15
Namuyimpʰu⁵³ ‘male’Sun H 91 NamQ: 10.3
Namuyiɛ⁵⁵prefixvu⁵⁵ ‘grandfather’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 317.19
Namuyia⁵⁵prefixvu⁵⁵ n‘grandfather’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0216.46
Pumi (Jiulong)a¹¹prefixpy⁵⁵ n‘grandfather’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0216.10
Pumi (Lanping)a⁵⁵prefixpu⁵⁵ n‘grandfather’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0216.09
Pumi (Qinghua)a⁵⁵prefixpu⁵⁵ ‘grandfather’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 317.11
Pumi (Taoba)a⁵⁵prefixpu⁵³ ‘grandfather’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 317.10
Zhaba (Daofu County)(x)morpheme ʃo⁵⁵morpheme◦pu⁵⁵ n‘cattle (common, male)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0255.14
Zhaba (Daofu County)a³³prefixpo⁵⁵ n‘grandfather’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0216.14

6.1.2Loloish1

Lolophopo⁵⁵ ‘male’Dai 89 Lolo: 10.3

6.1.2.2Central Loloish18

Ahii³³morpheme pʻu²² ‘male’Luo 90: 10.3
Ahizo²¹morphemepho²¹ ‘male’Chen 86 Yi: 10.3
Jinuoja⁴²morphemephɔ⁴⁴ n‘cock’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0294.44
Jinuokhɔ³³morphemephɔ³³ ‘man (male person)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 290.34
Jinuo (Youle)khɔ⁴⁴morphemephɔ⁴⁴ ‘man / male’Gai 86
Lisu (Northern)hæ̃³⁵#2630 PTB *rwak ‘RAT’PTk *rwok ‘RAT / RODENT’hø̃²¹morphemephu²¹ ‘rat with short and thick tail, big belly, grey hair’Bradley 94 Lisu
Yi (Sani)je⁴⁴morphemephv̩³³ n‘cock’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0294.39

7Karenic1

Pa-Ophô ‘ox, bovid’Solnit 89 PaO

8Bai1

Bai (Jianchuan)ke⁵⁵morphemepo⁵⁵ n‘cock’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0294.48

9Sinitic2

Chinese (Hanzi)丈夫 ‘husband’morphemeNagano 2013 rGyDB: 0766

9.0.1Old Chinese2

Chinese (Old/Mid)pi̯wo/pi̯u ‘man / husband’Chou 72: 101a-b

9.0.2Middle Chinese1

9.0.3Modern Chinese2

Chinese (Mandarin)zhàngmorpheme◦fū ‘husband, man’Evans 91

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1635, *pu ‘MALE / MASCULINE SUFFIX’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1635
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-1635,
  title  = {{*pu 'MALE / MASCULINE SUFFIX'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1635},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1635}
}