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STEDT #1782

*mwa ⪤ *mya-n

SPIT / VOMIT
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · exemplary

Reconstruction analysis

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Notes

For now, the reflexes with back vowels are deemed to descend from *mwa, while those with front vowels are assumed to come from *mya-n.

The Jingpho form seems to incorporate the nominalizing suffix *-n. See HPTB:439-453. According to Dai 1983:515, there is a minimal pair between mǎ³³ jen³³ ‘tin’ and mǎ³³ je̠n³³ ‘spit’, with the latter showing constriction of the vowel of the full syllable. The latter form was interpreted in HPTB:115 as being due to a glottal prefix, i.e. Pre-Jingpho *məʔyen.

Reflexes & cognates33 reflexes · 9 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmanm-ʔ-yen ‘saliva / spittle’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 620

1.1.2Deng14

Darang [Taraon]me⁵³ ‘vomit’Sun H 80 MLD
Darang [Taraon]me⁵³ v.‘throw up / vomit’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1535.22
Idume ‘vomit’Pulu 78
Idume⁵⁵ v‘spit’Sun H 91 IduQ: 3.7.11
Idume⁵⁵ v‘vomit’Sun H 91 IduQ: 3.7.13
Idume⁵⁵ ‘spit’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 542.50
Idume⁵⁵ ‘vomit’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 543.50
Yidume⁵⁵ v.‘throw up / vomit’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1535.25

1.7.1.1Bodo4

Bodomu◦zumorpheme v‘spit’Bhat 68 Boro
Bodomu◦zumorpheme ‘spit’Bhat 68 Boro
Bodomu◦zumorpheme v.‘spit’Matisoff 87 BP
Bodomu◦zumorpheme krimorpheme v‘spit out small bits’Bhat 68 Boro

1.7.3.1Jingpho3

Jingphoməyèn ‘spittle / saliva’Matisoff 87 BP
Jingphoməyèn məmorpheme◦thàwmorpheme v.‘spit’Matisoff 87 BP
Jingphoməyèn pratmorpheme v.‘spit’Matisoff 87 BP

2.3Kiranti1

2.3.3Central Kiranti2

Khaling'khimorpheme◦mö ‘saliva’Michailovsky 91 Kr: 146
Khaling'khimorpheme◦mō ‘spittle / saliva’Matisoff 87 BP

2.3.4Western Kiranti6

Sunwarme-cāmorpheme v.‘vomit’Matisoff 87 BP
Sunwarme-syomorpheme n‘vomit’Matisoff 87 BP
Sunwar√ᴴme◦ttmorpheme- v.‘vomit on (so.)’Michailovsky 91 Kr: 197
Sunwar√ᴸme- v.‘vomit’Michailovsky 91 Kr: 197

4Nungic2

Trung [Dulong]mo⁴² ‘phlegm / sputum / saliva / mucus’Matisoff 87 BP
Trung [Dulong]mo⁴² ‘spittle / saliva’Matisoff 87 BP

6.1.2.3Southern Loloish2

Hani (Dazhai)mje̱³³; xa⁵⁵morpheme ‘spit’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 542.31

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1782, *mwa ⪤ *mya-n ‘SPIT / VOMIT’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1782
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-1782,
  title  = {{*mwa ⪤ *mya-n 'SPIT / VOMIT'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1782},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1782}
}