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STEDT #193

*bliŋ

STRING / THREAD / CORD
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Notes

This etymon seems quite independent from #528 PTB *bryam ⪤ *brim NAVEL / UMBILICAL CORD.

Chinese comparandum

繩 OC *d̑ʻi̯əng, GSR #892b ‘string, cord’; B & S 2011: {Cə.ləŋ}; Mand. shéng.

Reflexes & cognates32 reflexes · 9 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmanbliŋ ‘string / thread / cord’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 584

1.1.2Deng6

Kaman [Miju]bɹɑ̆ŋ⁵³ n‘rope / string’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0619.23
Kaman [Miju]bɹɑ̆ŋ⁵³ ‘rope’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 422.48
Idunamorpheme◦mbra ‘thread’Anonymous 62 Idu
Iduɑ⁵⁵prefixtɕe⁵⁵morphemembɹɑŋ³⁵ ‘rope’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 422.50
Yidumbɹɑŋ³⁵ clf‘classifier for rope’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0838.25
Yiduɑ⁵⁵prefixtɕe⁵⁵morpheme mbɹɑŋ³⁵ n‘rope / string’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0619.25

3.2Qiangic10

Ersupʂɿ⁵⁵ ‘rope’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 422.18
Pumi (Jiulong)tʃõ¹¹morphemebʐẽ⁵⁵ n‘string (oxhide)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0601.10
Pumi (Lanping)bʐə̃¹³ n‘rope / string’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0619.09
Pumi (Lanping)ʐɤ¹³morphemebʐə̃⁵⁵ n‘string (oxhide)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0601.09
Pumi (Taoba)bʐẽ³⁵ ‘rope’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 422.10
Pumi (Taoba)tə³⁵prefixbʐɛ³⁵ ‘break (v.i. of rope, etc.)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 765.10
Qiang (Mianchi)bʐè ‘rope, string’Evans 99 Qiang: 868

3.3.1rGyalrong5

rGyalrong (Maerkang)təprefix brᴇ n‘rope / string’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0619.11
rGyalrongtəprefix brᴇ ‘rope’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 422.12
Caodengtəprefix-nbre ‘rope (hempan)’Sun J 97 Cao
rGBenzhentəprefix-mkomorpheme nbrə ‘rope made of leather’Sun J 97 rGB
rGBenzhentəprefix-nbreʔ ‘rope’Sun J 97 rGB

4Nungic4

Anong (Rawang/Metu)ammorpheme◦briŋ ‘cord’Benedict 72 STC: 176n469
Anong (Rawang/Metu)ɑmmorpheme◦briŋ= *ɑ(m)briŋ ‘cord’Chou 72: 892a
Trung [Dulong]ɑŋ³¹morphemebɹɯŋ⁵⁵ ‘rope’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 422.46
Trung [Dulong] (Nujiang)bɹɯŋ⁵⁵ ‘rope’Sun H 82 Dul

9Sinitic2

9.0.1Old Chinese2

Chinese (Old/Mid)d̑ʻi̯əŋ/dźʻi̯əŋ ‘string / cord’Chou 72: 892b
Chinese (Old){Cəmorpheme.ləŋ} ‘string, cord’BaxterSagart 2011: 2475

9.0.2Middle Chinese1

9.0.3Modern Chinese2

Chinese (Mandarin)shéng◦zimorpheme ‘rope’Evans 91

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #193, *bliŋ ‘STRING / THREAD / CORD’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/193
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. STC 176n469, HPTB p.307
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-193,
  title  = {{*bliŋ 'STRING / THREAD / CORD'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #193},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/193}
}