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STEDT #178

*r-tas

THICK / HARD / SOLID
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handletas/tprefixrinitialtrhymea(s/t)coverT · TS

Intermediate reconstructions

Kuki-Chin*tshaʔ ‘THICK / DENSE’PKC #606
Tangkhulic*ʃa ‘THICK’DRM#738

Connections

HPTB*r-tas ‘thick / solid / coarse’pp. 127, 128, 129, 432
HPTB*tow-n ⪤ *dow-n ‘thick’pp. 181, 222, 224, 226, 228, 452, 515

Notes

STC #426 originally reconstructed this root as *r-ta-t, but this was revised in note 291 to *r-tas, where the s is considered part of the root, not a suffix.

Chinese comparandum

粗 *N-sˁra ‘coarse, thick’
鹵 *rˁaʔ {[r]ˁaʔ} ‘rustic, coarse’

Reflexes & cognates57 reflexes · 15 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)3

*Tibeto-Burmanr-tas ‘thick / solid / coarse’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 614

1.2Kuki-Chin1

*Chintshaʔ ‘THICK / DENSE’VanBik 09 PKC: 606

1.2.1.1Northern Chin8

Sizangsā hī ‘thick’VanBik 09 PKC: 606
Thadosàa-INV ‘thick (book, thing, etc)’VanBik 09 PKC: 606
Thadoʌ̄prefix◦sà ‘thick’Thirumalai 72: 59
Tiddimsaʔ³ ‘thick’VanBik 09 PKC: 606
Tiddimsaʔ³ ‘thick’Bhaskararao 94 TCV
Tiddimˍsaʔ/ˍsaʔ v‘thick’Henderson 65 TidC

1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin8

Chinbonḁprefix◦šʰoʔ ‘thick’So-Hartmann 88 Chin: 232
Khumitho ‘thick (book, hair, fog, etc.)’VanBik 09 PKC: 606
Ngmüünḁʔprefix◦šʰaʔ ‘thick’So-Hartmann 88 Chin: 232

1.2.2Central Chin9

Bawmsàʔ ‘thick (to be)’Løffler 85 Paa
Lai (Falam)sàʔ-INV ‘thick, dense’VanBik 09 PKC: 606
Lai (Hakha)tshaʔ-INV ‘thick, dense’VanBik 09 PKC: 606
Lushai [Mizo]chhàh ‘thick (as wood, cloth, paper, clouds, etc)’VanBik 09 PKC: 606
Lushai [Mizo]tśaʔ ‘thick’LaPolla 87: 38
Lushai [Mizo]tshàʔ ‘thick (to be)’Løffler 85 Paa

1.3.4Tangkhulic5

Huishukəmorpheme-se ‘thick’Mortensen 12 Tk: Verbs.147
Kachaikəmorpheme-ʃu ‘thick’Mortensen 12 Tk: Verbs.129
Tusomkəmorpheme-ʃi ‘thick’Mortensen 12 Tk: Verbs.166
Ukhrulkəmorpheme-ʃa ‘thick’Mortensen 12 Tk

1.4Meithei2

Meitheiarprefix◦tha◦basuffix ‘thick’Marrison 67 Naga
Meitheiəprefix◦tha-basuffix ‘thick’Benedict 72 STC: 426

1.5Mikir [Karbi]2

Mikir [Karbi]arthat ‘fat, thick, callous’Benedict 72 STC: 426

1.7.1Bodo-Garo1

1.7.2Northern Naga/Konyakian1

*Northern NagaC̬-tat ‘thick’French 83: 566

1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang1

Wanchotat ‘thick’Marrison 67 Naga

1.7.3.1Jingpho7

Jingphohtat ‘thick’Marrison 67 Naga
Jingpholəthat ‘coarse, rough’Benedict 72 STC: 426
Jingphothat ‘thick’LaPolla 87: 38
Jingphothat³¹ ‘thick’Liu 84
Jingphothat³¹ ‘thick’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 813.47

2.1.2Bodic4

Tsangla (Motuo)thet◦pusuffix ‘thick’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 813.7
Tsangla (Motuo)tʻet⁵⁵pu⁵⁵suffix ‘thick’Zhang Jichuan 86
Tsangla (Tilang)thet-pusuffix ‘thick’Zhang Jichuan 86
Motuo Menbathet pusuffix adj‘thick’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0980.07

2.1.2.1Tibetan2

Tibetan (Written)'thas-pasuffix ‘hard, solid’LaPolla 87: 38
Tibetan (Written)ḥthas-pasuffix ‘hard, solid’Benedict 72 STC: 426

4Nungic10

Anongthat ‘thick’LaPolla 87: 38
Rawangthat wɛ³³morpheme ‘thick’LaPolla 03: 1007
Dulongtɑt⁵⁵ adj‘thick’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0980.20
Trung [Dulong]tɑ̆t⁵⁵ ‘thick’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 813.46
Trung [Dulong] (Nujiang)thɑ̆t⁵⁵ ‘thick’Sun H 82 Dul
Trung [Dulong] (Nujiang)thɑ̆t⁵⁵ ‘thick (liquid)’Sun H 82 Dul

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #178, *r-tas ‘THICK / HARD / SOLID’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/178
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: STC#426
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-178,
  title  = {{*r-tas 'THICK / HARD / SOLID'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #178},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/178}
}