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STEDT #1900

*nam

BODY / ANIMAL

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handlenaminitialnrhymeamcoverM · N

Notes

This root is well-attested in Karenic, with a likely Tangsa cognate.

Reflexes & cognates12 reflexes · 2 subgroups

1.7.2.1Tangsa-Nocte2

Tangsa³ñʌm-¹sa(ʔ)#34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’MesorootsPKC *sʰaa ‘ANIMAL / FLESH / MEAT’PCN *a-ʃaʔ ‘ANIMAL / MEAT, FLESH’PTk *sa ‘FLESH / MEAT / ANIMAL’Allofams1 #5711 PTB *sya-n ⪤ *sin ‘FLESH / ANIMAL / BODY / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’1a #34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’1b #318 PTB *sin ‘BODY / OWNER / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’ ‘animal’Weidert 87 TBTo: 140

Tangsa³ñʌm-¹sa(ʔ)#34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’MesorootsPKC *sʰaa ‘ANIMAL / FLESH / MEAT’PCN *a-ʃaʔ ‘ANIMAL / MEAT, FLESH’PTk *sa ‘FLESH / MEAT / ANIMAL’Allofams1 #5711 PTB *sya-n ⪤ *sin ‘FLESH / ANIMAL / BODY / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’1a #34 PTB *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’1b #318 PTB *sin ‘BODY / OWNER / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’ ‘animal / meat(1) / cattle(1) / deer(1)’Weidert 87 TBTo: 41

7Karenic10

Bwe (Western)ne² ‘body, self’Luce 85: I.190

Gebane² ‘body, self’Luce 85: I.190

Pa-Onâm ‘body’Solnit 89 PaO

Pa-Onâm ‘body’Jones 61: 840

Pa-Onâm ʔáŋmorpheme kámorpheme ‘body (2)’Solnit 89 PaO

Pa-O (Northern)nɑm² ‘body, self’Luce 85: I.190

Pakunɔ³ ‘body, self’Luce 85: I.190

Pwo (Delta)nɑ̃¹kʻɔ̃⁴#1 PTB *guŋ ‘BODY / BACK’ ‘body, self’Luce 85: I.190

Pwo (Tenasserim)nɑ̃⁴kʻɔ̃⁶#1 PTB *guŋ ‘BODY / BACK’ ‘body, self’Luce 85: I.190

Sgawnɔ⁶kʻo¹#1 PTB *guŋ ‘BODY / BACK’ ‘body, self’Luce 85: I.190

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #1900, *nam ‘BODY / ANIMAL’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1900

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-1900,
  title  = {{*nam 'BODY / ANIMAL'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1900},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1900}
}