*l-kuk

MUTE / DUMB

Proto-Tibeto-Burman · provisional

Reconstruction analysis

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Notes

This root seems to be independent of #1752 PTB *m-ʔa MUTE / DUMB / STUPID.

Reflexes & cognates11 reflexes · 6 subgroups

1.1.1.1Western Tani2

Tagingam#6324 PTani *gom ‘LANGUAGE / SPEECH’◦kak ‘dumb (=mute?)’Das Gupta 83 Tag

Tagingaŋ#6324 PTani *gom ‘LANGUAGE / SPEECH’◦kak ‘dumb (=mute?)’Das Gupta 83 Tag

1.1.1.2Eastern Tani1

Milangkyak-mamorpheme-ɲisuffix ‘dumb’Tayeng 76 Mil

2.1.2Bodic2

Tsangla (Tilang)kuk-pasuffix ‘mute person’Zhang Jichuan 86

Tshona (Mama)kuk⁵⁵ pᴀ⁵³suffix ‘mute person’Sun H 80 MLD

2.1.2.1Tibetan3

Tibetan (Amdo:Zeku)hkəg-wæsuffix ‘mute’Sun J 85 Amdo: 623

Tibetan (Written)lkugs-pasuffix ‘dumb / mute’Matisoff 87 BP

Tibetan (Written)lkugs.pasuffix ‘mute’Sun J 85 TbGl: 623

3.2Qiangic2

Queyu (Yajiang) [Zhaba]ku⁵⁵ pa⁵³suffix ‘mute / dumb’Sun H 91 ZhaQ: 3.8.3

Queyu (Yajiang) [Zhaba]ku⁵⁵pa⁵³suffix ‘mute’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 302.16

3.3.1rGyalrong1

rGyalrong (Northern)taprefix◦mkʰək ‘mute / dumb’Sun H 91 rNQ: 3.8.3

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1789, *l-kuk ‘MUTE / DUMB’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1789

Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].

References: Bodish

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-1789,
  title  = {{*l-kuk 'MUTE / DUMB'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1789},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1789}
}