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STEDT #2774

*s-wa

BE IN MOTION / GO / COME

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

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Intermediate reconstructions

Central Naga (Ao Group)*wa ‘GO’PCN #025

Tangkhulic*wa ‘GO’DRM#329

Connections

HPTB*s-wa ‘go’p. 173

Chinese comparandum

于 OC *gi̯wo, GSR #97a-g ‘proceed; go’; Schuessler 2007:583 *wa; B & S 2011: *ɢʷa {ɢʷ(r)a}; Mand. yú.

Reflexes & cognates65 reflexes · 11 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)2

*Tibeto-Burmans-wa ‘go’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 618

*Tibeto-Burmans-wɑ v.‘proceed / go to’Chou 72: 97a-g

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)29

*Central Nagawa ‘GO’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.025

*Aoaprefix-wa ‘GO’Bruhn 14 PCN: II.272

Ao (Chungli)a²prefix-u² v.‘go’Bruhn 14 PCN: II.272

Ao (Chungli)aprefix◦o ‘go’Marrison 67 Naga

Ao (Chungli)ima#2588 PTB *(p/b)yam ‘FLY (v.)’PCN *a-jəm ‘FLY / FLOW’PLB *byam¹ ‘FLY (v.)’-aprefix◦o v‘fly’Marrison 67 Naga

Ao (Mongsen: Longchang)lamorpheme◦wa ‘descend’Marrison 67 Naga

Ao (Mongsen: Longchang)tsungimorpheme◦wa◦chensuffix ‘west’Marrison 67 Naga

Ao (Mongsen: Longchang)wa ‘go’Marrison 67 Naga

Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)[tə]-puk#164 PTB *d-puːk ‘BELLY / VITALS / HOLLOW OBJECT / CAVE’MesorootsPTani *puk ‘HEART’PTani *pɯk ‘CAVE’PCN *puk ‘STOMACH, BELLY’PTk *buk ‘BELLY / STOMACH’Allofams1 #6723 PTB *d-(p/b)u-k ‘BELLY / STOMACH / CAVE’1a #2104 PTB *pʷik ‘BELLY / STOMACH’1b #2106 PTB *wuk ‘BELLY / STOMACH’1c #164 PTB *d-puːk ‘BELLY / VITALS / HOLLOW OBJECT / CAVE’1d #2103 PTB *pʷu ‘BELLY / STOMACH / INTESTINE / KIDNEY’1e #2102 PTB *wu ‘BELLY / STOMACH / INTESTINE / KIDNEY’1g #2111 PTB *pwa(ŋ/n) ‘BELLY / CENTER’ wà-pàʔsuffix n.‘diarrhea [diarrhoea] ('stomach' + 'go' + NR)’Coupe 07 Ao

Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)kəmorpheme◦wa v.‘go up [went up]’Coupe 07 Ao

Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)tsə̀hŋimorpheme tʃhumorpheme◦wa-tʃənsuffix ‘east ('sun' + 'emerge' + LNOM)’Coupe 07 Ao

Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)tsə̀hŋimorpheme-wa-tʃənsuffix ‘west ('sun' + go + LNOM)’Coupe 07 Ao

Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)tʃhumorpheme◦wa v.‘emerge [emerged]’Coupe 07 Ao

Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)wa v.‘go [went]’Coupe 07 Ao

Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)wa-tʃənsuffix n.‘path ('go' + LNOM)’Coupe 07 Ao

Lotha Nagavo¹- v.‘go’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.025

Lotha Nagavá ‘go ahead’Acharya 75

Lotha Nagavà imperat‘go’Acharya 75

Lotha Nagavo◦asuffix ‘go’Murry 78: 51

Lotha Nagawa ‘go’Marrison 67 Naga

Lotha Nagawo ‘go’Marrison 67 Naga

Lotha Nagawō◦àsuffix imperat‘go’Acharya 75

Sangtamvü v.‘go’Kumar 73 Sang

Sangtamvü ‘go’Marrison 67 Naga

Yacham-Tengsawa ‘go’Marrison 67 Naga

Yimchungrüü ‘go’Marrison 67 Naga

Yimchungrüü◦khiamorpheme ‘go out’Marrison 67 Naga

Yimchungrüü◦zaa#5463 PCN *ʒa ‘GO IN / ENTER’ ‘enter’Marrison 67 Naga

Yimchungrüyü ‘go’Kumar 73 Yim: 50

1.3.2Angami-Pochuri Group14

Angami Naga⁵vo v.‘come’Weidert 87 TBTo: 75

Angami (Khonoma)lamorpheme◦vo◦rümorpheme v‘return (come back)’Marrison 67 Naga

Angami (Khonoma)vo ‘go’Marrison 67 Naga

Angami (Khonoma)vo◦rümorpheme v‘come’Marrison 67 Naga

Angami (Kohima)lamorpheme◦vo◦rümorpheme v‘return (come back)’Marrison 67 Naga

Angami (Kohima)vo ‘go’Marrison 67 Naga

Angami (Kohima)vo◦rümorpheme v‘come’Marrison 67 Naga

Chokrilamorpheme◦vo◦rimorpheme v‘return (come back)’Marrison 67 Naga

Chokrivo ‘go’Marrison 67 Naga

Chokrivo◦rimorpheme v‘come’Marrison 67 Naga

Chokri⁴vo v.‘come’Weidert 87 TBTo: 75

Meluriwa ‘go’Marrison 67 Naga

Ntenyiwa ‘go’Marrison 67 Naga

Sema [Sumi]wu ‘go’Marrison 67 Naga

1.3.4Tangkhulic5

*Tangkhulicwa ‘go’Mortensen 12 Tk: 329

Kachaikʰəmorpheme-wu ‘go’Mortensen 12 Tk

Tangkhulva ‘go out’Marrison 67 Naga

Tangkhulwa ‘go’Bhat 69 TNV: 90

Ukhrulkʰəmorpheme-va ‘go’Mortensen 12 Tk

1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang1

Changhau ‘go’Marrison 67 Naga

1.7.3.1Jingpho1

Jingphowa v.‘be in motion’Benedict 72 STC: 167n447

2.2Newar1

Newarwa ‘come’Benedict 72 STC: 167n447

2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang4

Chepanghwa ‘walk, move’morphemeBenedict 72 STC: 167n447

Chepanghwɑ ‘walk / move’morphemeChou 72: 97a-g

Chepangkah.taŋ wahʔ- vi.‘move backwards’morpheme · morpheme · morphemeCaughley 00 Chepang

Chepangwah- vi.‘move, proceed, come or go (non-directional), travel’Caughley 00 Chepang

3.2Qiangic2

Ersuʂɿ³³ʂɿ⁵⁵ ‘walk’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 572.18

Lyuzufu³³fu⁵³ v.‘walk’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1815.18

6.1.1Burmish9

Burmese (Rangoon)tθwɑ⁵⁵ v.‘go / leave’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1579.27

Burmese (Rangoon)ze⁵⁵morphemetθwɑ⁵⁵ v.‘go (to market / a fair)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1334.27

Burmese (Spoken Rangoon)tθwɑ⁵⁵ ‘go’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 738.40

Burmese (Written)swâ ‘go’Matisoff 74 TJLB: 263b

Burmese (Written)swâ v.‘go’Benedict 76 WBur

Burmese (Written)swà ‘go’Benedict 72 STC: 167n447

Burmese (Written)swā: ‘go’Marrison 67 Naga

Burmese (Written)swɑ̀ ‘go’Chou 72: 97a-g

Burmese (Written)thwɑ³ ‘go’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 738.39

9.0.1Old Chinese2

Chinese (Old/Mid)gi̯wo/yi̯u v.‘proceed / go’Chou 72: 97a-g

Chinese (Old)w(r)ja ‘go’Baxter 92: 1375

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #2774, *s-wa ‘BE IN MOTION / GO / COME’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2774

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

References: cf. STC p.105, HPTB p.173

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-2774,
  title  = {{*s-wa 'BE IN MOTION / GO / COME'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #2774},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2774}
}