STEDT #2195
*m-day ⪤ *m-di
THAT / THIS / DEICTIC
Reconstruction analysis
handledayinitialdrhymeaycoverT · W
Connections
HPTB*day ‘this / that’p. 207
Notes
As is to be expected with high-frequency grammatical etyma, this root shows some vowel gradation, apparently between *-ay and *-i.
The nasal prefix is attested directly in Written Tibetan and Jingpho, and indirectly by the voiced initial in Written Burmese.
Chinese comparandum
是 OC *d̑i̯ĕg, GSR #866a-c ‘this’; B & S 2011: *deʔ {[d]eʔ}; Mand. shì.
之 OC *̵t̑i̯ĕg, GSR #962a-b ‘third person pronoun; attributive particle‘; Schuessler 2007:613 *tə; B & S 2011: *tə; Mand. zhī.
Reflexes & cognates219 reflexes · 18 subgroups
0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)3
1.1.1.2Eastern Tani1
1.3.2Angami-Pochuri Group5
1.3.3Zeme Group2
1.7.1.1Bodo1
1.7.3.1Jingpho10
Jingphotai³¹niŋ³³#2501 PTB *s-ni(ː)ŋ ⪤ *s-nik ‘YEAR’PTani *ñiŋ ‘YEAR’PCN *niŋ ‘SKY / YEAR’PL *s-nikᴴ ‘YEAR’PKar *hneŋ ‘YEAR’PKar *hneŋᴮ ‘YEAR’ ‘this year’Liu 84
Jingphotai³¹niŋ³³#2501 PTB *s-ni(ː)ŋ ⪤ *s-nik ‘YEAR’PTani *ñiŋ ‘YEAR’PCN *niŋ ‘SKY / YEAR’PL *s-nikᴴ ‘YEAR’PKar *hneŋ ‘YEAR’PKar *hneŋᴮ ‘YEAR’ n/adv‘this year’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0778.19
2.1.1Western Himalayish10
2.1.2Bodic5
Tshona (Wenlang)dɑ³⁵niŋ⁵⁵#2501 PTB *s-ni(ː)ŋ ⪤ *s-nik ‘YEAR’PTani *ñiŋ ‘YEAR’PCN *niŋ ‘SKY / YEAR’PL *s-nikᴴ ‘YEAR’PKar *hneŋ ‘YEAR’PKar *hneŋᴮ ‘YEAR’ ‘this year’Lu 86 CuoM
2.1.2.1Tibetan35
Tibetan (Batang)e¹³morphemede⁵³ na¹³morpheme na⁵³morpheme dem‘that (way) / (like) that’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0952.03
Tibetan (Batang)ʔe⁵⁵morpheme de⁵³ na¹³morpheme na⁵³morpheme dem‘thus / this (way) / (like) this’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0946.03
3.2Qiangic31
Pumi (Lanping)di¹³ta⁵⁵morphemetshɑ̃u¹³morpheme dem‘thus / this (way) / (like) this’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0946.09
Pumi (Lanping)tə⁵⁵ta⁵⁵morphemetshɑ̃u¹³morpheme dem‘that (way) / (like) that’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0952.09
3.3rGyalrongic10
Daofuɛ#5807 PTB *(h)i ⪤ *(h)ay ‘THIS / HERE / PROXIMAL DEICTIC’ de bimorpheme dem‘thus / this (way) / (like) this’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0946.12
Daofuɛ#5807 PTB *(h)i ⪤ *(h)ay ‘THIS / HERE / PROXIMAL DEICTIC’ de qhɛmorpheme dem‘this side / here’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0945.12
3.3.1rGyalrong43
4Nungic6
Rawangdɛ³¹ nɯŋ⁵³#2501 PTB *s-ni(ː)ŋ ⪤ *s-nik ‘YEAR’PTani *ñiŋ ‘YEAR’PCN *niŋ ‘SKY / YEAR’PL *s-nikᴴ ‘YEAR’PKar *hneŋ ‘YEAR’PKar *hneŋᴮ ‘YEAR’ ‘this year’LaPolla 03: 823
Nungdɛ³¹ȵi⁵⁵#2501 PTB *s-ni(ː)ŋ ⪤ *s-nik ‘YEAR’PTani *ñiŋ ‘YEAR’PCN *niŋ ‘SKY / YEAR’PL *s-nikᴴ ‘YEAR’PKar *hneŋ ‘YEAR’PKar *hneŋᴮ ‘YEAR’uɑ⁵⁵morpheme n/adv‘this year’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0778.21
6.1.1Burmish27
6.1.2.1Northern Loloish6
Gazhuotɛ³³ni³³morphemeta⁵⁵morpheme dem‘thus / this (way) / (like) this’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0946.47
6.1.2.2Central Loloish18
Lisu (Northern)thø³³ma³³morpheme ba³³morphemesi³³morpheme ‘besides or apart from this’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)thø³³ma³³morpheme ji⁵⁵morphemeba²¹morpheme kwa³³morpheme ‘apart from or besides this’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)thø³³ma³³morpheme ka³³morphemetæ³³morpheme ‘besides or except this; above’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)thø³³ma³³morpheme kwa³³morphemene⁵⁵morpheme ‘from here; starting from this’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)thø³³ma³³morpheme leʔ²¹morpheme ma²¹morphemetshi³morpheme ‘not only this’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)thø³³ma³³morpheme vu⁵⁵morphemeni³³morpheme ‘therefore; because of this’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Central)thø³³ma³³morpheme vu⁵⁵morphemeɲi³³morpheme ‘therefore; because of this’Bradley 94 Lisu
6.1.2.3Southern Loloish1
Hani (Dazhai)thø⁵⁵; ø⁵⁵#5739 PTB *wa-n ‘THAT / DISTAL DEMONSTRATIVE’ ‘that;that (far)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 983.31
Cite this entry
STEDT etymon #2195,
*m-day ⪤ *m-di ‘THAT / THIS / DEICTIC’.Stable link:
https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2195Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: STC#021
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-2195,
title = {{*m-day ⪤ *m-di 'THAT / THIS / DEICTIC'}},
author = {STEDT},
year = {2017},
note = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #2195},
url = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2195}
}