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STEDT #1749

*ʔaw

VOMIT
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

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Connections

HPTB*ʔaw ‘vomit’p. 227

Notes

The Chinese comparandum to the WB form was hesitantly suggested in STC n. 491, p. 192.

Since the Chinese form could also mean ‘babble as a child’, it cannot be excluded that this etymon is related to #5452 PTB *ʔur MAKE NOISE / HUM / CHAT / BABBLE.

Chinese comparandum

嘔 OC *ʔu, GSR #122i ‘vomit; babble’; Schuessler 2007:595 *ʔôʔ; B & S 2011: *qˁoʔ {qˁ(r)oʔ}; Mand. ǒu.
嘔 OC *ʔi̯wɑ̆t, GSR #346j ‘vomit’; Schuessler 2007:595 *ʔwat or *ʔot; Mand. yuē.

Reflexes & cognates13 reflexes · 6 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

9.0.1Old Chinese3

Chinese (Old/Mid)ʔu/ʔə̯u ‘vomit’Chou 72: 122i
Chinese (Old/Mid)ʔu/ʔə̯u: ‘vomit, babble (as a child)’Karlgren 57 GSR: 122i

9.0.2Middle Chinese1

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1749, *ʔaw ‘VOMIT’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1749
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. HPTB p. 227, Sinitic
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-1749,
  title  = {{*ʔaw 'VOMIT'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1749},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1749}
}