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STEDT #2022

*n-dzi

BALD

Proto-Loloish · provisional

Reconstruction analysis

handledziprefixninitialdzrhymeicoverTS · V

Reflexes & cognates11 reflexes · 2 subgroups

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish9

Nusu (Central)tɕhuɔ⁵⁵ adj‘bald / bare’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0993.34

Nusu (Central)tɕʰuo³³ ‘bald’Dai 89 NusB: 1392.

Nusu (Central/Zhizhiluo)tɕʰɚ³⁵ ‘bald’Dai 89 NusA: 1392.

Nusu (Central/Zhizhiluo)u³¹#385 PTB *d-bu-s ‘HEAD / CENTER / SENIOR MALE RELATIVE / UNCLE’MesorootsPKC *ʔuu ‘ELDER SIBLING’Allofams1 #385 PTB *d-bu-s ‘HEAD / CENTER / SENIOR MALE RELATIVE / UNCLE’1a #1223 PTB *du ‘HEAD’ pʰu⁵⁵#1275 PTB *pu ‘BALL / EGG / ROUND OBJECT’Allofams1 #1168 PTB *pʷu ‘EGG / BIRD / ROUND OBJECT’1a #301 PTB *ʔu ‘EGG / BIRD’1b #1654 PTB *pu ‘EGG’1c #1275 PTB *pu ‘BALL / EGG / ROUND OBJECT’ tɕʰɚ³⁵ ‘bald person’Dai 89 NusA: 246.

Yi (Liangshan)ɔ²¹morphemenʣɿ⁵⁵ ‘bald person; bald spot’Ma 08 Yi: index

Yi (Wuding)nthi⁵⁵ adj‘bald / bare’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0993.38

Yi (Xide)dzɿ³³ adj‘bald / bare (tail)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0993.35

Yi (Xide)ndzɿ⁵⁵ adj‘bald / bare (head)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0993.35

Yi (Xide)ɔ²¹prefix-ndzɿ⁵⁵ ‘baldhead’Chen 79 YiCh

6.1.2.2Central Loloish2

Lahu (Lancang)ʑi³¹lɔ⁵³morpheme adj‘bald / bare’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0993.43

Lisudi³¹le³³morpheme adj‘bald / bare’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0993.40

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #2022, *n-dzi ‘BALD’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2022

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-2022,
  title  = {{*n-dzi 'BALD'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #2022},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2022}
}