Reconstruction analysis
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Notes
This rather sparsely attested root has an apparently strange range of meaning, including both GUMS and PALATE, perhaps explicable by their common reddish color.
The second element of the Lahu compound cì-qhɔ is a possible phonological descendant of this root, but is better assigned to #820 PTB *(g/k)uŋ HOLE / ORIFICE / INNER PART.
It seems likely that there is a connection between this root and #473 PTB *kwaŋ MOUTH.
Reflexes & cognates11 reflexes · 6 subgroups
1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin1
2.3.1Eastern Kiranti2
Yakhakɔːŋ◦daʔ#1719 PTB *(t/d)a(ŋ/k) ‘PALATE / TOP PART’PKC *ɗaŋ ‘UVULA / PALATE’◦maːmorpheme ‘palate’Kohn 90: 3.7.1
Yakhaneːʔnamorpheme kɔːŋ◦daʔ#1719 PTB *(t/d)a(ŋ/k) ‘PALATE / TOP PART’PKC *ɗaŋ ‘UVULA / PALATE’◦maːmorpheme ‘soft palate’Kohn 90: 3.7.2
3.2Qiangic1
6.1.2Loloish1
6.1.2.2Central Loloish1
Cite this entry
STEDT etymon #1723,
*kwaŋ ‘PALATE / GUMS’.Stable link:
https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1723Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-1723,
title = {{*kwaŋ 'PALATE / GUMS'}},
author = {STEDT},
year = {2017},
note = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1723},
url = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1723}
}