*s-lap

WING / FLUTTER / EYELASH / GILL

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handletšainitial(t)šrhymeapcoverTS · T

Connections

Allofams

17 #753 *m/p/s-(l/d)ap ‘ARM / HAND / WING’
17a #757 *lap ‘WING / FEATHER’
17b #2077 *s-lap ‘WING / FLUTTER / EYELASH / GILL’
17c #760 *p-(l/y)ap ‘WING / FEATHER’
17d #756 *pap ‘WING / FEATHER’
17e #758 *m-dap ‘WING / FEATHER’

Notes

There is perhaps a connection with #352 PTB *s-lyap LIGHTNING / FLASH / GLITTER / BUTTERFLY (STC #213). Cf. Lepcha lyop ‘glitter, flash, glisten’, where the medial -y- could be a reflex of the *s- prefix. See Benedict 1943.

Reflexes & cognates6 reflexes · 4 subgroups

1.1.1.2Eastern Tani3

Padam-Mishing [Abor-Miri]mik#682 PTB *s-mik ‘EYE’MesorootsPTani *mik ‘EYE’PKC *mik ‘EYE’PKC *mik-kuu-I, -kuk-II ‘SLEEPY’PCN *mjak ⪤ *hmik ‘EYE’PTk *mik ‘EYE’PTk *mit ‘EYE’TGTM *ᴮʰmiː(ŋ) ‘EYE’Allofams1 #33 PTB *s-myak ⪤ *s-mik ‘EYE’1a #682 PTB *s-mik ‘EYE’1b #681 PTB *s-myak ‘EYE’-shâp ‘eyelash’Matisoff 87 BP

Padam-Mishing [Abor-Miri]shâp-shamorpheme ‘gills’Matisoff 87 BP

Padam-Mishing [Abor-Miri]shâp-shémorpheme ‘gills’Matisoff 87 BP

2.1.2.1Tibetan1

Tibetan (Written)lhab lhab ‘flutter to and fro; glimmer, glisten’Jäschke 1881: 601

2.1.3Lepcha1

Lepchahlap-păsuffix ‘flap (as wings)’Mainwaring 98: 381

2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang1

Magarmik#682 PTB *s-mik ‘EYE’MesorootsPTani *mik ‘EYE’PKC *mik ‘EYE’PKC *mik-kuu-I, -kuk-II ‘SLEEPY’PCN *mjak ⪤ *hmik ‘EYE’PTk *mik ‘EYE’PTk *mit ‘EYE’TGTM *ᴮʰmiː(ŋ) ‘EYE’Allofams1 #33 PTB *s-myak ⪤ *s-mik ‘EYE’1a #682 PTB *s-mik ‘EYE’1b #681 PTB *s-myak ‘EYE’ chap ‘eyelash’Matisoff 87 BP

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #2077, *s-lap ‘WING / FLUTTER / EYELASH / GILL’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2077

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

References: fluttery/flapping things

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-2077,
  title  = {{*s-lap 'WING / FLUTTER / EYELASH / GILL'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #2077},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2077}
}