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STEDT #2142

*ʔaːw

SHOUT / CRY OUT
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

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Intermediate reconstructions

Kuki-Chin*ʔaaw ‘SCREAM / CALL OUT / SHOUT’PKC #501

Connections

See also*wu ‘HOWL / WHINE / BARK’

Notes

This root is solid, although it has a clearly onomatopoetic element to it.

Chinese comparandum

呼 OC *χo, GSR #55h ‘call out, shout, summon’; B & S 2011: *qʰˁa; Mand. hū.
號 OC *g’og, GSR #1041p-q ‘cry out, command’; B & S 2011: *C.ɡˁaw {[C.ɡ]ˁaw}; Mand. háo.
嚆 OC *χŏg, GSR #1129b’ ‘make noise’; Mand. hāo.
嚎 OC (not in GSR #1129; probably *χŏg) ‘howl, bawl’; Mand. háo.
呴 呵 嗷

Reflexes & cognates15 reflexes · 7 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)2

1.2Kuki-Chin1

*Chinʔaaw ‘SCREAM / CALL OUT / SHOUT’VanBik 09 PKC: 501

1.2.1.1Northern Chin1

Thadoʔáaw-I, ʔàaw-II ‘scream’VanBik 09 PKC: 501

1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin1

Khumiáw◦haymorpheme ‘shout at, yell to’VanBik 09 PKC: 501

1.2.2Central Chin6

Lai (Hakha)ʔâaw-I, ʔǎaw-II ‘scream, call, out, cry out, shout’VanBik 09 PKC: 501
Lai (Falam)ʔǎaw-I, ʔàaw-II ‘scream, cry out, call out’VanBik 09 PKC: 501
Lushai [Mizo]áu ‘scream, to cry out, to shout out, to call out, to bawl’VanBik 09 PKC: 501
Lushai [Mizo]au ‘scream, cry out’Benedict 72 STC: 273

1.7.1.1Bodo1

Dimasahau ‘shout in chorus’Benedict 72 STC: 273

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #2142, *ʔaːw ‘SHOUT / CRY OUT’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2142
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: STC#273
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-2142,
  title  = {{*ʔaːw 'SHOUT / CRY OUT'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #2142},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2142}
}