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STEDT #2765

*wu

HOWL / WHINE / BARK

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

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Connections

HPTB*wu ‘howl / grumble’p. 178

See also*ʔaːw ‘SHOUT / CRY OUT’

Notes

This etymon, which undoubtedly has an imitative component, is very likely related to #5452 PTB *ʔur MAKE NOISE / HUM / CHAT / BABBLE.

Reflexes & cognates25 reflexes · 8 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)3

*Tibeto-Burmanu ‘howl (dog)’Weidert 87 TBTo: 224

*Tibeto-Burmanu ‘whine / howl / bark’Benedict 72 STC: 261

*Tibeto-Burmanwu ‘howl / grumble’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 619

1.2.2Central Chin2

Lushai [Mizo]ǔ ‘whine (as a dog)’Weidert 87 TBTo: 224

Lushai [Mizo]u ‘whine (as a dog)’Benedict 72 STC: 261

1.5Mikir [Karbi]2

Mikir [Karbi]iŋprefix-ū(ʔ) ‘howl (dog)’Weidert 87 TBTo: 224

Mikir [Karbi]iŋprefix◦u ‘bark (as a dog), grumble, growl’Benedict 72 STC: 261

1.7.3.1Jingpho4

Jingphowau⁵⁵ v‘bark’Liu 84

Jingphowau⁵⁵ v.‘bark’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1432.19

Jingphowau⁵⁵ v‘bark’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 783.47

Jingphowu ‘murmur, mumble, mutter’Benedict 72 STC: 261

2.2Newar1

Newaru-yemorpheme v‘bark’Hale 73 CSD: 03b.01

6.1.1Burmish7

Burmese (Rangoon)u²² v.‘howl (of wolves)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1436.27

Burmese (Written)o ‘cry out, bawl, howl’Benedict 76 WBur

Burmese (Written)u ‘howl (dog)’Weidert 87 TBTo: 224

Burmese (Written)u v.‘howl ( onomat. ? ) ; to be much’Benedict 76 WBur

Burmese (Written)u ‘howl (as a dog)’Benedict 72 STC: 261

Burmese (Written)u² v.‘howl (of wolves)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1436.26

Marmau ‘cry (of animal) / bark’Huziwara 08 Sak: 320-1

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish5

Yi (Liangshan)vo⁵⁵ ‘bark (dog); crow’Ma 08 Yi: index

Yi (Xide)vo⁵⁵ ‘bark’Chen 79 YiCh

Yi (Xide)vo⁵⁵ v‘bark’Chen 85 YiJZ

Yi (Xide)vo⁵⁵ v.‘bark’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1432.35

Yi (Xide)vo⁵⁵ v‘bark’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 783.21

7Karenic4

Bweo v.‘bark(of dogs);to call a dog’Henderson 97 Kar

Bweo bomorpheme v.‘bark (never to call a dog)’Henderson 97 Kar

Kayan (Pekon)ù V‘crow, bark, used of animals’Manson 10 Kayan

Pa-Oʔú ‘bark, crow’Solnit 89 PaO

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #2765, *wu ‘HOWL / WHINE / BARK’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2765

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

References: cf. STC#261, HPTB p.178

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-2765,
  title  = {{*wu 'HOWL / WHINE / BARK'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #2765},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2765}
}