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STEDT #2579

*pun

WRAP / COVER / WEAR

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handlepuninitialprhymeuncoverP · N

Intermediate reconstructions

Kuki-Chin*puan ‘BLANKET / COVER / GARMENT’PKC #125

Central Naga (Ao Group)*m-p[a/ə]n ‘WEAR (CLOTHES)’PCN #181

Connections

HPTB*pun ‘wrap / cover / wear’p. 495

Notes

This root has perhaps developed into Proto Tani #6535 PTani *pu WRAP UP IN A BUNDLE, in which subgroup no trace of the final nasal remains.

The Mizo form bun was assigned to #2180 PTB *bu(w) WEAR in STC #428. In any case, these two roots may well be allofamically related.

Reflexes & cognates34 reflexes · 13 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)2

*Tibeto-Burmanpun ‘wrap / cover / wear’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 607

*Tibeto-Burmanpun ‘wrap / cover / wear’Benedict 72 STC: 385

1.1.1Tani1

*Tanipu ‘wrap up in a bundle’also contains *puSun J 93 HCST: 477

1.2Kuki-Chin1

*Chinpuan ‘BLANKET / COVER / GARMENT’VanBik 09 PKC: 125

1.2.1.1Northern Chin4

Paitepuan ‘cloth’VanBik 09 PKC: 125

Sizangpuen ‘clothes’VanBik 09 PKC: 125

Thadopûan ‘cloth’VanBik 09 PKC: 125

Tiddimpuan¹ zaː² ‘blanket’VanBik 09 PKC: 125

1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin1

Khumiaprefix◦paaw ‘cloth’VanBik 09 PKC: 125

1.2.2Central Chin8

Lai (Hakha)pûan ‘blanket’VanBik 09 PKC: 125

Lai (Falam)púan ‘blanket’VanBik 09 PKC: 125

Lushai [Mizo]bun v‘wear’Marrison 67 Naga

Lushai [Mizo]bun v‘put on or wear (as ring; boots; etc.)’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 2153

Lushai [Mizo]bun ‘put on / wear (as ring, boots), encircle’Benedict 72 STC: 428

Lushai [Mizo]puan ‘cloth’Marrison 67 Naga

Lushai [Mizo]pǔan ‘cloth, garment, apparel’VanBik 09 PKC: 125

Lushai [Mizo]puan ‘cloth’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 1415

1.2.3Maraic1

Lakher [Mara]pò ‘blanket, cover’VanBik 09 PKC: 125

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)9

*Central Nagamprefix-p[a/ə]n ‘WEAR (CLOTHES)’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.181

Ao (Chungli)a³morphemepən³ v.‘wear, put on’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.181

Ao (Chungli)áprefix◦pɯ́n v.‘wear’Temsunungsang 09 Ao: 9

Ao (Chungli)sü#7640 PCN *a-ʃə ‘CLOTH / SHAWL’-aprefix◦ben v‘wear’Marrison 67 Naga

Lotha Nagam̩¹prefix-pen³- v.‘wear, put on’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.181

Lotha Nagamprefix◦pen v‘wear’Marrison 67 Naga

Lotha Nagamprefix◦pen◦asuffix ‘wear’Murry 78: 135

Sangtammüprefix◦pi◦chosuffix v.‘wear’Kumar 73 Sang

Sangtamnüprefix◦pi v‘wear’Marrison 67 Naga

1.5Mikir [Karbi]1

Mikir [Karbi]pum v‘wear’Marrison 67 Naga

1.7.1.1Bodo4

Dimasaphin ⪤ phun ‘put on, wrap, cover’Benedict 72 STC: 385

Dimasaphun v‘wrap’Marrison 67 Naga

Dimasaphun-khlub#2321 PTB *klup ‘COVER / WRAP’MesorootsPCN *a-hl[a/ə]p ‘WRAP / COVER (v.)’Allofams7a #1233 PTB *(g/k)wap ‘HATCH / INCUBATE / COVER’7b #2767 PTB *ʔup ‘COVER / INCUBATE / HATCH’7c #2321 PTB *klup ‘COVER / WRAP’ ‘wrap around’Benedict 72 STC: 479

Dimasaphun◦khlubmorpheme ‘wrap around’LaPolla 87: 138

1.7.1.2Garo1

Garopin-dapmorpheme ‘cover’Benedict 72 STC: 385

1.7.1.3Koch1

Atongpyn•- v‘pack, to wrap up, to pack in a banana leaf, to cook in a banana leaf’van Breugel 08 Atong

1.7.3.1Jingpho5

Jingphohpun v‘wear’Marrison 67 Naga

Jingphophun ‘put on and wear, as a coat; cover, as with a blanket’Benedict 72 STC: 385

Jingphophun⁵⁵ ‘put on / wear’Liu 84

Jingphophun⁵⁵ ‘wear (a garment)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1211.19

Jingphophun⁵⁵ ‘put on / wear’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 646.47

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #2579, *pun ‘WRAP / COVER / WEAR’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2579

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

References: cf. HPTB p. 495, STC#385

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-2579,
  title  = {{*pun 'WRAP / COVER / WEAR'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #2579},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2579}
}