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STEDT #2492

*naːw

YOUNGER SIBLING

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

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Intermediate reconstructions

Tani*nɯ ‘BROTHER (younger)’JS-HCST: 115

Kuki-Chin(a) *naaw ‘CHILD / INFANT / YOUNG (n.)’PKC #806

Kuki-Chin(b) *naw ‘TENDER / SOFT / YOUNG’PKC #841

Central Naga (Ao Group)*nu ‘SIBLING (YOUNGER)’PCN #072

Tangkhulic*naw ‘CHILD / YOUNG / YOUNGER AUNT’DRM#386

Connections

HPTB*naːw ‘younger sibling’pp. 225, 226

HPTB*nyey ‘younger sibling’p. 206

Reflexes & cognates86 reflexes · 19 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)3

*Tibeto-Burmannaaw ‘younger sibling’LaPolla 87: 57

*Tibeto-Burmannaːw ‘younger sibling’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 604

*Tibeto-Burmannaːw ‘younger brother / younger sibling’Benedict 72 STC: 271

1.1.1Tani1

*Taninɯ ‘brother (younger)’Sun J 93 HCST: 48

1.1.1.1Western Tani16

Apataniaprefix-nu ‘brother (younger)’Sun J 93 HCST

Apataniaprefix-nu ‘brother’Sun J 93 Tani

Apataniaprefix-nu ‘brother's son, nephew’Sun J 93 Tani

Apataniaprefix-nu ‘nephew, brother's son’Sun J 93 Tani

Apataniaprefix-nú ‘younger brother’Sun J 93 Tani

Apataniaprefix-nu ‘younger brother’Sun J 93 Tani

Apataniaprefix-nu aprefix-wãmorpheme ‘kin’Sun J 93 Tani

Bokaraprefix bɯŋ#6277 PTani *bɯŋ ‘BROTHER (elder)’ nɯ romorpheme n‘brothers’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0235.24

Bokaraprefix-bɯŋ#6277 PTani *bɯŋ ‘BROTHER (elder)’ nɯ-romorpheme aprefix-meːmorpheme bɯr-məː#6274 PTani *bɯr-məː ‘SISTER (younger)’ n‘relative’Sun J 93 Tani

Bokarnɯ romorpheme n‘younger brother’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0228.24

Bokarnɯ-romorpheme ‘brother (younger)’Sun J 93 HCST

Bokarnɯ-romorpheme ‘brother (younger)’Sun J 93 Tani

Bokarnɯ-romorpheme ‘younger brother’Sun J 93 Tani

Bokar Lhobanɯ romorpheme ‘brother (younger)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 335.51

Bokar Lhobanɯ◦romorpheme ‘younger brother’LaPolla 87: 205

Bokar Lhobanɯ◦romorpheme ‘younger sibling’LaPolla 87: 57

1.2Kuki-Chin2

*Chinnaaw n‘CHILD / INFANT / YOUNG’VanBik 09 PKC: 806

*Chinnaw ‘TENDER / SOFT / YOUNG’VanBik 09 PKC: 841

1.2.1.1Northern Chin3

Thadonáaw ‘baby, child’VanBik 09 PKC: 806

Thadonôw-I, nòw-II be v.‘tender, soft’VanBik 09 PKC: 841

Tiddimnau² pang¹ ‘child, young’VanBik 09 PKC: 806

1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin3

Cho (Mindat)nau ⪤ na ‘younger brother or sister, infant, baby’VanBik 09 PKC: 806

Khumicnaáw ‘child’VanBik 09 PKC: 806

Khuminaw ‘soft (of fruit), rottten’VanBik 09 PKC: 841

1.2.2Central Chin7

Lai (Hakha)nâaw ‘child, infant, baby, young’VanBik 09 PKC: 806

Lai (Falam)nǎaw ‘child, infant’VanBik 09 PKC: 806

Lai (Hakha)nâw-I, nǎw-II be v.‘tender, soft, young’VanBik 09 PKC: 841

Lai (Falam)náw-INV be v.‘tender, soft, young’VanBik 09 PKC: 841

Lushai [Mizo]náu ‘child, infant, baby’VanBik 09 PKC: 806

Lushai [Mizo]nău ‘younger sibling’Benedict 72 STC: 271

Lushai [Mizo]nǒ be v.‘young, soft, tender’VanBik 09 PKC: 841

1.2.3Maraic1

Lakher [Mara]nàw ‘child, baby (poetry)’VanBik 09 PKC: 806

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)18

*Central Naganu ‘SIBLING (YOUNGER)’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.072

*Aotprefix-nu ‘SIBLING (YOUNGER)’Bruhn 14 PCN: II.249

Ao (Chungli)lamorpheme◦nu◦rsuffix ‘young’Marrison 67 Naga

Ao (Chungli)taprefix◦nu◦rsuffix ‘child’Marrison 67 Naga

Ao (Chungli)taprefix◦nu◦rsuffix ‘young’Marrison 67 Naga

Ao (Chungli)teprefix◦nu ‘brother (younger)’Marrison 67 Naga

Ao (Chungli)teprefix◦nu◦tzüsuffix ‘sister (younger)’Marrison 67 Naga

Ao (Chungli)tə²prefix-nu² n.‘sibling (younger)’Bruhn 14 PCN: II.249

Ao (Mongsen: Longchang)aprefix◦nu ‘child’Marrison 67 Naga

Ao (Mongsen: Longchang)tüprefix◦nu ‘brother (younger)’Marrison 67 Naga

Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)[a]prefix-nu n.‘child’Coupe 07 Ao

Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)[tə]prefix-nu n.‘sibling – younger’Coupe 07 Ao

Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)[tə]prefix-nu-za#1012 PTB *za-n ‘CHILD’MesorootsPKC *θaa ‘CHILD / OFFSPRING / SON / DAUGHTER’PBG *sa ‘CHILD’Allofams1 #428 PTB *tsa-n ⪤ *za-n ‘CHILD / SON / RELATIVES’1a #1012 PTB *za-n ‘CHILD’1b #2727 PTB *tsa-n ‘CHILD / GRANDCHILD / NEPHEW / NIECE’-paʔsuffix n.‘youngest male sibling ('younger sibling' + DIM + M)’Coupe 07 Ao

Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)[tə]prefix-nu◦zajlàmorpheme n.‘youngest female sibling’Coupe 07 Ao

Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)[tə]prefix-pá#1634 PTB *p/ba ‘MALE / FATHER / 3p PRONOUN’PKC *paa ‘FATHER’PKC *paa ‘MALE’PCN *pa ‘HE / SHE (3sg.)’PTk *ba ‘FATHER / MALE’PKar *phaᴬ ‘MALE (OF ANIMALS), FATHER’-nu-za#1012 PTB *za-n ‘CHILD’MesorootsPKC *θaa ‘CHILD / OFFSPRING / SON / DAUGHTER’PBG *sa ‘CHILD’Allofams1 #428 PTB *tsa-n ⪤ *za-n ‘CHILD / SON / RELATIVES’1a #1012 PTB *za-n ‘CHILD’1b #2727 PTB *tsa-n ‘CHILD / GRANDCHILD / NEPHEW / NIECE’-paʔsuffix n.‘father's younger brother ('father' + 'younger sibling' + DIM + M)’Coupe 07 Ao

Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)[tə]prefix-za#1012 PTB *za-n ‘CHILD’MesorootsPKC *θaa ‘CHILD / OFFSPRING / SON / DAUGHTER’PBG *sa ‘CHILD’Allofams1 #428 PTB *tsa-n ⪤ *za-n ‘CHILD / SON / RELATIVES’1a #1012 PTB *za-n ‘CHILD’1b #2727 PTB *tsa-n ‘CHILD / GRANDCHILD / NEPHEW / NIECE’-[tə]prefix-nu n.‘children’Coupe 07 Ao

Lotha Nagao¹prefix-nu¹-iʔ³suffix n.‘sibling (younger)’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.072

Lotha Nagaoprefix◦nyu◦imorpheme ‘brother (younger)’Marrison 67 Naga

1.3.2Angami-Pochuri Group4

Mao¹momorpheme³nü v.i.,v.‘young / tender’Weidert 87 TBTo: 337

Melurieprefix◦nu ‘brother (younger)’Marrison 67 Naga

Melurieprefix◦nu ‘sister (younger)’Marrison 67 Naga

Ntenyichümorpheme◦nu ‘brother (younger)’Marrison 67 Naga

1.3.4Tangkhulic22

*Tangkhulicnaw ‘child / young / younger aunt’Mortensen 12 Tk: 386

Huishukumorpheme-now ‘child’Mortensen 12 Tk: People.048

Kachaino ‘child’Mortensen 12 Tk: People.043

Tangkhulaprefix◦nao◦ngaprefix◦la#5493 PTB *la(ː) ‘FEMALE / DAUGHTER’PKC *laa ‘FEMALE (adolescent stage)’PCN *la ‘FEMALE, WOMAN’PTk *la ‘DAUGHTER’PNN *C̥-glaᴮ ‘FEMALE’◦vamorpheme ‘daughter’Marrison 67 Naga

Tangkhulamorpheme◦no ‘young’Marrison 67 Naga

Tangkhulhar#1600 PTB *haːr ‘BIRD / FOWL / CHICKEN’PKC *ʔaar ‘FOWL / CHICKEN’PCN *haːn-a ‘CHICKEN’PTk *ar ‘FOWL’◦nao ‘chicken’Marrison 67 Naga

Tangkhulnao-pam#673 PTB *pam ‘WOMB / PLACENTA / NEST’MesorootsPTk *bɐm ‘UTERUS / WOMB’Allofams98 #674 PTB *pʷam ‘WOMB / PLACENTA / BELLY / STOMACH / NEST’98a #2108 PTB *wam ‘BELLY / WOMB / PLACENTA / NEST’98b #673 PTB *pam ‘WOMB / PLACENTA / NEST’98c #137 PTB *pʷam ‘BELLY / STOMACH / WAIST’98d #3444 PTB *mam ‘WOMB / PLACENTA / NEST’ ‘womb’Matisoff 87 BP

Tangkhulnaw ‘young’Bhat 69 TNV: 100

Tangkhulngaprefix◦la#5493 PTB *la(ː) ‘FEMALE / DAUGHTER’PKC *laa ‘FEMALE (adolescent stage)’PCN *la ‘FEMALE, WOMAN’PTk *la ‘DAUGHTER’PNN *C̥-glaᴮ ‘FEMALE’◦nao ‘girl’Marrison 67 Naga

Tangkhulngaprefix◦la#5493 PTB *la(ː) ‘FEMALE / DAUGHTER’PKC *laa ‘FEMALE (adolescent stage)’PCN *la ‘FEMALE, WOMAN’PTk *la ‘DAUGHTER’PNN *C̥-glaᴮ ‘FEMALE’◦nao ‘young woman’Marrison 67 Naga

Tangkhulnoshimorpheme◦nao ‘child’Marrison 67 Naga

Tangkhulseimorpheme◦nao ‘calf (of cow)’Marrison 67 Naga

Tangkhulshiokmorpheme◦nao ‘mouse’Marrison 67 Naga

Tangkhulva#1603 PTB *w(a/u) ‘BIRD / EGG / WING / FOWL’PKC *waa ‘BIRD’PTk *wa ‘BIRD’◦nao ‘bird’Marrison 67 Naga

Tangkhulyaronmorpheme◦nao ‘young man’Marrison 67 Naga

Tangkhul¹əmorpheme³ŋaŋmorpheme-²nau ‘baby’Weidert 87 TBTo: 152

Tusomʔimorpheme-nɯ ‘child’Mortensen 12 Tk: People.035

Ukhrulkəprefix-tammorpheme-naw ‘student’Mortensen 12 Tk

Ukhrulnaw ‘child, baby’Mortensen 12 Tk

Ukhrulva#1603 PTB *w(a/u) ‘BIRD / EGG / WING / FOWL’PKC *waa ‘BIRD’PTk *wa ‘BIRD’-naw ‘bird’Mortensen 12 Tk

Ukhrulŋəmorpheme-la#5493 PTB *la(ː) ‘FEMALE / DAUGHTER’PKC *laa ‘FEMALE (adolescent stage)’PCN *la ‘FEMALE, WOMAN’PTk *la ‘DAUGHTER’PNN *C̥-glaᴮ ‘FEMALE’-naw ‘daughter’Mortensen 12 Tk

Ukhrulʃimorpheme-naw ‘child; woman’Mortensen 12 Tk

1.7.1Bodo-Garo2

*Bodo-Garonau ‘younger sister’Burling 59 PBo: 445

*Bodo-Garonau-sVmorpheme-limorpheme ‘wife's younger sister’Burling 59 PBo: 445

1.7.1.1Bodo2

Bodobinamorpheme nau ‘sister’Benedict 72 STC: 271

Bodobinámorpheme naw ‘younger sister’Bhat 68 Boro

1.7.1.2Garo1

Garono ‘younger sister’Benedict 72 STC: 271

1.7.1.3Koch1

Atongnaw n‘younger sister’van Breugel 08 Atong

1.7.3.1Jingpho1

Jingphonău ‘younger sibling’Benedict 72 STC: 271

2.1.2.1Tibetan2

Tibetan (Written)nu-bo ‘younger brother, younger sibling’Benedict 72 STC: 271

Tibetan (Written)nu-m ‘younger sister’Benedict 72 STC: 271

2.1.3Lepcha1

Lepchanŭm-nu ‘blood relation’Benedict 72 STC: 271

3.2Qiangic7

Qiang (Longxi)ámorpheme ȵà ‘father's younger brother's wife’Evans 99 Qiang: 290

Qiang (Longxi)ámorpheme ȵà ‘father's sister’Evans 99 Qiang: 302

Qiang (Longxi)tùmorpheme ȵì ‘brothers’Evans 99 Qiang: 292

Qiang (Mianchi)sàmorpheme nə̀ ‘sisters’Evans 99 Qiang: 293

Qiang (Mianchi)ȵá bʐàmorpheme ‘father's sister (3d person)’Evans 99 Qiang: 302

Qiang (Mianchi)ȵá bʐàmorpheme ‘mother-in-law’Evans 99 Qiang: 305

Qiang (Mianchi)ȵá-bʐàmorpheme ‘father's younger brother's wife [mother/aunt-big]’Evans 99 Qiang: 290

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #2492, *naːw ‘YOUNGER SIBLING’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2492

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

References: cf. HPTB pp. 225, 226; STC#271

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-2492,
  title  = {{*naːw 'YOUNGER SIBLING'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #2492},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2492}
}