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STEDT #2170

*brawŋ

WILD YAK / BUFFALO

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

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Connections

HPTB*broŋ ‘wild yak / buffalo’p. 294

Notes

This etymon was formerly reconstructed as *broŋ.

Chinese comparandum

犎 OC (*pi̯ung), GSR (not in #1197) ‘wild, humped bovine’; Schuessler 2007:237 *poŋ; B & S 2011: (*poŋ); Mand. fēng.

Reflexes & cognates41 reflexes · 10 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)2

*Tibeto-Burmanbroŋ ‘wild yak / buffalo’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 585

*Tibeto-Burmanbroŋ ‘wild yak, buffalo’Benedict 72 STC: 136

1.2.1.1Northern Chin9

Thadobóoŋ láa#5493 PTB *la(ː) ‘FEMALE / DAUGHTER’PKC *laa ‘FEMALE (adolescent stage)’PCN *la ‘FEMALE, WOMAN’PTk *la ‘DAUGHTER’PNN *C̥-glaᴮ ‘FEMALE’ ‘unmated female cow’VanBik 09 PKC: 1018

Thadobɔ̄ŋ ‘cow’Thirumalai 72: 21

Thadobɔ́ŋ cʌ̀lmorpheme ‘bull’Thirumalai 72: 30

Thadobɔ́ŋ◦cʌ̀lmorpheme ‘bull’Thirumalai 72: 39

Thadobɔ́ŋ◦númorpheme ‘cow’Thirumalai 72: 40

Tiddimboːng² ‘cattle’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 115

Tiddimboːng² buːk¹morpheme ‘cattle pen’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 116

Tiddimboːng² pi¹morpheme ‘cow’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 117

Tiddimboːng² tal²morpheme ‘ox’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 118

1.2.2Central Chin5

Lushai [Mizo]bâwng ‘cattle’Marrison 67 Naga

Lushai [Mizo]bawng ‘cattle’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 115

Lushai [Mizo]bâwng◦notêmorpheme ‘calf (of cow)’Marrison 67 Naga

Lushai [Mizo]bâwng◦numorpheme ‘cow’Marrison 67 Naga

Lushai [Mizo]bâwng◦pamorpheme ‘bull’Marrison 67 Naga

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)3

Ao (Mongsen: Longchang)aprefix◦pang ‘buffalo’Marrison 67 Naga

Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)[a]prefix-paŋ n.‘buffalo (water)’Coupe 07 Ao

Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)tsə#1631 PTB *tsyu ‘WATER / LIQUID / BODY FLUID’PCN *a-tʃə ‘WATER’TGTM * ᴮkjui ‘WATER’◦muŋ n.‘gaur’Coupe 07 Ao

2.1.2Bodic1

Tsangla (Central)brung ‘buffalo’Andvik 93: 89

2.1.2.1Tibetan4

Tibetan (Written)byɑ́ŋmorpheme-kʻɑimorpheme ḥbroŋ ‘yak (of Jang-thang)’Jäschke 1881

Tibetan (Written)ḥbroŋ ‘yak (wild)’Jäschke 1881

Tibetan (Written)ḥbroŋ ‘wild yak, buffalo’Benedict 72 STC: 136

Tibetan (Written)ḥbroŋ-ḥbrimorpheme ‘yak (wild female ) / cow’Jäschke 1881

3.2Qiangic7

Namuyibu⁵³ n‘yak (male)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0257.46

Namuyibu⁵⁵mi⁵³#1618 PTB *mi ‘FEMALE / GIRL / FEMININE SUFFIX’PTani *mji-məː ‘WOMAN’PTani *mi-fVŋ? ‘WIFE’PLB *m(y)i-n² ‘WIFE’PL *C-mi² ‘WOMAN’PKar *hmɨᴮ ‘FEMALE, WOMAN’ n‘yak (female)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0257.46

Namuyibu⁵⁵zi⁵³morpheme n‘calf (yak)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0259.46

Qiang (Mianchi)bó (zɨ̀)morpheme ~ bò zɨ́morpheme ‘yak, pianniu (male)’Evans 99 Qiang: 320

Qiang (Mianchi)miàmorpheme bó ‘yak, pianniu (female)’Evans 99 Qiang: 322

Xumibo³³mi⁵³#1618 PTB *mi ‘FEMALE / GIRL / FEMININE SUFFIX’PTani *mji-məː ‘WOMAN’PTani *mi-fVŋ? ‘WIFE’PLB *m(y)i-n² ‘WIFE’PL *C-mi² ‘WOMAN’PKar *hmɨᴮ ‘FEMALE, WOMAN’ n‘yak (female)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0257.17

Xumibõ³³ra³³morphemewu⁵³morpheme n‘yak (male)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0257.17

3.3.1rGyalrong4

rGyalrong (Maerkang Bola (B))bruŋ33 ‘wild yak’Nagano 2013 rGyDB: 1459

rGyalrong (Maerkang Caodeng (B))brɔŋ33 ‘wild yak’Nagano 2013 rGyDB: 1459

rGyalrong (Maerkang Japhug Shaerzong (B))mbroŋ ‘wild yak’Nagano 2013 rGyDB: 1459

rGyalrongNbrung ‘wild cattle’Nagano 97 GyQ: 2.3

6.1.1Burmish2

Burmese (Written)prauŋ ‘buffalo, bison’Benedict 72 STC: 136

Burmese (Written)proŋ ‘buffalo, bison’Benedict 76 WBur

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #2170, *brawŋ ‘WILD YAK / BUFFALO’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2170

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

References: STC#136, HPTB p.294

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-2170,
  title  = {{*brawŋ 'WILD YAK / BUFFALO'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #2170},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2170}
}