STEDT #1902
*-pu ⪤ *-pwa
SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)
Reconstruction analysis
handlepuinitial-prhymeu⪤-pocoverVT
Notes
This morpheme is actually a general noun suffix in Tibetan and other languages. For ease of reference, however, nouns with this suffix relating to the body are here assembled in one place. See Jäschke:324-325.
Written Tibetan has the three suffixes -pa, -ba, and -po, which sometimes have nominalizing force, but often merely serve to provide an additional syllable to a noun root. After a verbal root, -pa behaves rather like English ‘to’, used in the citation form of verbs, creating a kind of infinitive or verbal noun.
Reflexes & cognates87 reflexes · 11 subgroups
1.1.1.1Western Tani2
2.1.2Bodic14
2.1.2.1Tibetan35
Tibetan (Amdo:Zeku)rkom#1805 PTB *m/s-kam ‘LEAN (MEAT, PERSON)’ mbo ‘lean (meat)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 851.5
Tibetan (Batang)zo⁵⁵#4 PTB *g-zuk ‘BODY’ po⁵⁵ ngo⁵⁵morpheme dĩ⁵⁵morpheme ‘torso / trunk’Dai 89 Bata: 1.6
Tibetan (Written)'bri#2616 PTB *b-rəy ‘DRAW / MARK / BOUNDARY’MesorootsPKC *rii ‘LINE / BORDER / LIMIT’PCN *a-rəjʔ ‘BOUNDARY, BORDER’TGTM *ᴬbri,ᴬbriː ‘WRITE’Allofams1 #96 PTB *b-rəy ⪤ *b-ris ⪤ *rit ⪤ *riːn ‘DRAW / WRITE / COUNT’1a #2616 PTB *b-rəy ‘DRAW / MARK / BOUNDARY’1b #107 PTB *b-ris ‘DRAW / PICTURE’1c #110 PTB *rit ‘DRAW / BOUNDARY’1d #5774 PKC *riːn ‘SCRATCH / DRAW LINE’-ba ‘draw, write’LaPolla 87: 181
Tibetan (Written)'chi#27 PTB *səy ‘DIE’PTani *si ‘DIE’PKC *thii-I, thiʔ-II ‘DIE / DEAD / EXTINCT’PCN *səj ‘DIE’PTk *tʰi ‘DIE’PNN *səy ‘DIE’PLB *səy¹ ‘DIE’PKar *sejᴬ ‘DEAD, DIE’-ba ‘die’Matisoff 83 TIL: 13
Tibetan (Written)'dźiŋ#479 PTB *g/m-liŋ ‘NECK’PTani *lɯŋ ‘NECK’-pa~mdźiŋ#479 PTB *g/m-liŋ ‘NECK’PTani *lɯŋ ‘NECK’-pa ‘neck’LaPolla 87: 132
Tibetan (Written)'gul#496 PTB *m-g(u/i)l ‘THROAT’-pa ~ mgul#496 PTB *m-g(u/i)l ‘THROAT’(-pa) ‘neck, throat’Coblin 86: 112
Tibetan (Written)zla#1016 PTB *s/g-la ‘MOON / MONTH’PTani *po-lo ‘MOON’PKC *khlaa ‘MOON / MONTH’PNN *gla poy ‘MOON’TGTM *ᴮHla ‘MOON’TGTM *ᴮʰla ‘MONTH’PKir *la ‘MOON’PLB *s/ʔ-la³ ‘MOON / MONTH’PL *bə la³ ‘MOON’PKar *Ɂlaᴬ ‘MOON, MONTH’ ba n‘moon’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0004.01
Tibetan (Written)zla#1016 PTB *s/g-la ‘MOON / MONTH’PTani *po-lo ‘MOON’PKC *khlaa ‘MOON / MONTH’PNN *gla poy ‘MOON’TGTM *ᴮHla ‘MOON’TGTM *ᴮʰla ‘MONTH’PKir *la ‘MOON’PLB *s/ʔ-la³ ‘MOON / MONTH’PL *bə la³ ‘MOON’PKar *Ɂlaᴬ ‘MOON, MONTH’ ba ‘moon’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 3.1
Tibetan (Written)zla#1016 PTB *s/g-la ‘MOON / MONTH’PTani *po-lo ‘MOON’PKC *khlaa ‘MOON / MONTH’PNN *gla poy ‘MOON’TGTM *ᴮHla ‘MOON’TGTM *ᴮʰla ‘MONTH’PKir *la ‘MOON’PLB *s/ʔ-la³ ‘MOON / MONTH’PL *bə la³ ‘MOON’PKar *Ɂlaᴬ ‘MOON, MONTH’-ba ‘moon’LaPolla 87: 145
Tibetan (Written)zla#1016 PTB *s/g-la ‘MOON / MONTH’PTani *po-lo ‘MOON’PKC *khlaa ‘MOON / MONTH’PNN *gla poy ‘MOON’TGTM *ᴮHla ‘MOON’TGTM *ᴮʰla ‘MONTH’PKir *la ‘MOON’PLB *s/ʔ-la³ ‘MOON / MONTH’PL *bə la³ ‘MOON’PKar *Ɂlaᴬ ‘MOON, MONTH’-ba ‘moon’Benedict 72 STC: 42n136
2.1.3Lepcha1
2.1.4Tamangish2
3.2Qiangic9
3.3rGyalrongic4
Ergong (Danba)hɛmorpheme zu#4 PTB *g-zuk ‘BODY’ pu ʐɛ#2154 PTB *b(w)ay ‘LEFT (HAND)’PTk *joj ‘LEFT SIDE’PL *b-way² ‘LEFT’ kuamorpheme ‘side (left)’Sun H 91 ErDQ: 1.3
Ergong (Danba)hɛmorpheme zu#4 PTB *g-zuk ‘BODY’ pu ʐɛmorpheme ʐtʰɯmorpheme ‘side (right)’Sun H 91 ErDQ: 1.2
3.3.1rGyalrong6
rGyalrong (Northern)təprefix◦pʰuŋ#13 PTB *puŋ ‘BODY / TORSO / CORPSE’◦bu rme#368 PTB *r-(n/m)ey ‘HAIR OF HEAD’ ‘body hair’Sun H 91 rNQ: 8.1.3
rGyalrong (NW)təprefix◦pʰuŋ#13 PTB *puŋ ‘BODY / TORSO / CORPSE’◦bə təprefix ʁorjemorpheme ‘front’Sun H 91 rNW: 1.5
rGyalrong (NW)təprefix◦pʰuŋ#13 PTB *puŋ ‘BODY / TORSO / CORPSE’◦bə təquemorpheme ‘side (left)’Sun H 91 rNW: 1.3
rGyalrong (NW)təprefix◦pʰuŋ#13 PTB *puŋ ‘BODY / TORSO / CORPSE’◦bə ʁatɕʰimorpheme ‘side (right)’Sun H 91 rNW: 1.2
5Tujia2
6.1.2.1Northern Loloish5
6.1.2.2Central Loloish7
Sani [Nyi]kɯ³³#2 PTB *s-kəw ‘BODY / CHEST / THORAX / CORPSE’ pɯ³³ mɪ²¹morpheme ‘filthy (body)’Wu 84: 28.1
Cite this entry
STEDT etymon #1902,
*-pu ⪤ *-pwa ‘SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)’.Stable link:
https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1902Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-1902,
title = {{*-pu ⪤ *-pwa 'SUFFIX (nominalizer; bulk-provider)'}},
author = {STEDT},
year = {2017},
note = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #1902},
url = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/1902}
}