*w(u/i)l

TEND (grazing animals) / WATCH OVER

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handlewulinitialwrhymeul=vulcoverL · L

Intermediate reconstructions

Kuki-Chin*wil ‘WATCH / LOOK AFTER / CARE FOR’PKC #1179

Connections

HPTB*wul ‘tend grazing animals’pp. 384, 416

Notes

This etymon is perhaps allofamic with #6173 PTB *s-r-way LEAD (v.) / TEND / WATCH / GUARD.

Reflexes & cognates7 reflexes · 5 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmanwul ‘tend grazing animals’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 619

1.2Kuki-Chin1

*Chinwil ‘WATCH / LOOK AFTER / CARE FOR’VanBik 09 PKC: 1179

1.2.1.1Northern Chin4

Sizangvil hī ‘watch (as a sentry)’VanBik 09 PKC: 1179

Tiddimvil³ ‘watch and look, keep watch (as a sentry)’VanBik 09 PKC: 1179

Tiddimvil³ v‘watch and look’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 1958

Tiddimvil³ ‘watch and look’Bhaskararao 94 TCV

1.2.2Central Chin2

Lushai [Mizo]vǐl v‘watch over, to look after, to tend, to care for, to take care of’VanBik 09 PKC: 1179

Lushai [Mizo]vul ‘keep or rear (domestic animals)’also contains *vulʔBenedict 72 STC: p.83

1.5Mikir [Karbi]1

Mikir [Karbi]vi ‘tend, graze (flocks)’Benedict 72 STC: p.83

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #2783, *w(u/i)l ‘TEND (grazing animals) / WATCH OVER’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2783

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

References: cf. STC p.83, HPTB pp. 384, 416

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-2783,
  title  = {{*w(u/i)l 'TEND (grazing animals) / WATCH OVER'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #2783},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2783}
}