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STEDT #2277

*ʔit ⪤ *yat

ONE
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · provisional

Reconstruction analysis

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Connections

HPTB*ʔit ‘one’p. 352

Notes

STC p. 94 sets up PTB *ʔit on the basis of only two forms, Kanauri id and WB ac, identifying it (p. 162) as cognate to OC *ʔi̯ĕt.

To these we now add Chepang yat, motivating the allofamic reconstruction with -i- ⪤ -ya- variation, a pattern attested in several other roots (cf. #33 PTB *s-myak ⪤ *s-mik EYE, #2610 PTB *s-rik ⪤ *s-ryak PHEASANT / PARTRIDGE, etc.).

The Chinese form has been borrowed into Tai in compound numerals (e.g., Siamese sìp-ʔèt ‘eleven, rɔ́ɔj-ʔèt ‘one hundred and one’).

Several TB languages of Nepal have disyllabic forms for ONE where the first syllable has a superficial resemblance to this etymon, but these all seem to be borrowings from Nepali ek. See Matisoff 1995:126-7.

Chinese comparandum

一 OC *ʔi̯ĕt, GSR #394a-d ‘one’; Coblin 86:114 ST *ʔjit > OC *ʔjit; Schuessler 2007:563 *ʔit; B & S 2011: *ʔit {ʔi[t]}; Mand. yī.

Reflexes & cognates30 reflexes · 7 subgroups

0Sino-Tibetan (previously published reconstructions)1

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)3

2.1.1Western Himalayish12

Kanauriī ‘one’Bailey 11
Kanauriī myāmorpheme ‘once / once upon a time / one day’Bailey 11
Kanauriidʻ ‘one’Bailey 11
Kanauriī◦myāmorpheme ‘one day / once upon a time’Bailey 11
Kanaurinis̱ẖmorpheme/nīmorpheme nizɔ̄morpheme idʻ ‘forty-one’Bailey 11
Kanaurinizɔ̄morpheme idʻ ‘twenty-one’Bailey 11
Kanauripöṇizɔ̄morpheme idʻ ‘eighty-one’Bailey 11
Kanauris̱ẖŭmmorpheme nizɔ̄morpheme idʻ ‘sixty-one’Bailey 11
Pattani [Manchati]it◦ʃamorpheme ‘one’Sharma, D.D. 82 TH

2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang10

Chepangya(ʔ)- nmb.‘one’Caughley 00 Chepang
Chepangya.jyaŋmorpheme nm.‘one (emphatic)’Caughley 00 Chepang
Chepangya.jyomorpheme nm.‘one thing, person’Caughley 00 Chepang
Chepangyat-joʔmorpheme ‘one’Caughley 72 CVoc: 1.11
Chepangyat. taŋmorpheme n.‘one direction’Caughley 00 Chepang
Chepangyat.cakmorpheme nm.‘one person’Caughley 00 Chepang
Chepangyāt.joʔmorpheme ‘one’Hale 73 CSD: 01.011
Chepangyat.jyaŋmorpheme nm.‘one (emphatic)’Caughley 00 Chepang
Chepangyat.nismorpheme nm.‘one or two, some’Caughley 00 Chepang

6.1.1Burmish2

9.0.1Old Chinese4

Chinese (Old)ʔit {[ʔ]i[t]} ‘one’BaxterSagart 2011: 3393

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #2277, *ʔit ⪤ *yat ‘ONE’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2277
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. STC p.94, HPTB p. 352; STC done
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-2277,
  title  = {{*ʔit ⪤ *yat 'ONE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #2277},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2277}
}