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STEDT #2795

*b-yəw-n/t

LEAK / DRIP / URINE
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handleyuwinitialyrhymeuw=yəwcoverL · W

Intermediate reconstructions

Kuki-Chin(b) *yun ‘URINE’PKC #1245
Kuki-Chin(a) *yut ⪤ *yun ‘LEAK / RUN OUT’PKC #1213

Connections

HPTB*yu-n ⪤ *yu-t ‘leak / drip’p. 441

Notes

This root is very well established. The labial prefix is attested in Kuki-Chin, and is possibly the source of the affricate in Chepang. Two allofams are reconstructed at the PKC level. The semantic association between LEAKING and URINATING is too obvious to mention.

Reflexes & cognates118 reflexes · 20 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)2

*Tibeto-Burmanyu-n ⪤ yu-t ‘leak / drip’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 620

1.2Kuki-Chin2

*Chinyut ⪤ yun ‘LEAK / RUN OUT’VanBik 09 PKC: 1213

1.2.1.1Northern Chin9

Kuki-Chinjun◦thamorpheme v‘urinate’Haokip 98: 9.7.2
Thadozùn ‘urine’VanBik 09 PKC: 1245
Thadozùn ‘urine’Thirumalai 72: 55
Thadozún ‘urine’Thirumalai 72: 68
Tiddimzun³ ‘urine’VanBik 09 PKC: 1245
Tiddimzün⁴ ‘urine’Luce 85: O.21

1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin8

Ashopmorpheme◦yun-düˊˊmorpheme-imorpheme ‘urine’VanBik 09 PKC: 1245
Asho (Sandoway)pʻyuᵊn² ‘urine’Luce 85: O.21
Cho (Mindat)yut v‘run out, flow out through a small hole (as grains, liquids)’VanBik 09 PKC: 1213
Khumipyúng◦háangmorpheme ‘urine’VanBik 09 PKC: 1245
Khumi (Ahraing)pə̆yũ⁵ ‘urine’Luce 85: O.21
Khumi (Ahraing)pə̆yᴜɲ⁵ ‘urine’Luce 85: O.21
Matupiyuᵊn¹ ‘urine’Luce 85: O.21
Matupiʒuːn¹ ‘urine’Luce 85: O.21

1.2.2Central Chin17

Lai (Hakha)zun ‘excrement, urine’Benedict 72 STC: 430
Lai (Hakha)zut-I, zuʔ-II ‘leak’VanBik 09 PKC: 1213
Lai (Hakha)zuθ ‘leak, drip fall’Benedict 72 STC: 430
Lai (Hakha)zᴜn² ‘urine’Luce 85: O.21
Lushai [Mizo]zun ‘excrement, urine’Benedict 72 STC: 430
Lushai [Mizo]zun-tuimorpheme ‘urine’Matisoff 87 BP
Lushai [Mizo]zung-busuffix ‘bladder, urinary’Matisoff 87 BP
Lushai [Mizo]zun◦tuimorpheme ‘urine’Marrison 67 Naga
Lushai [Mizo]zᴜn⁴ ‘urine’Luce 85: O.21

1.2.3Maraic12

Lailenpipə̆morpheme◦zɑuʔ⁴ ‘urine’Luce 85: O.21
Lakher [Mara]áprefix zú v‘leak’VanBik 09 PKC: 1213
Lakher [Mara]pamorpheme-zô ‘urine’Matisoff 87 BP
Lakher [Mara]pāmorpheme-zō ‘urine’VanBik 09 PKC: 1245
Lakher [Mara]zô-chômorpheme ‘bladder, urinary’Matisoff 87 BP
Lakher [Mara]zu ‘drip, leak; a drop’Benedict 72 STC: 430
Lothvo (Hiranpi)pə̆morpheme◦yᴜ̃⁴ ‘urine’Luce 85: O.21
Merapə̆⁵morphemezəu⁵ ‘urine’Luce 85: O.21
Tha'oayün² ‘urine’Luce 85: O.21
Xongsaiʒün⁴ ‘urine’Luce 85: O.21
Xongsaiʒᴜn² ‘urine’Luce 85: O.21
Zotungʒwĩ⁴ ‘urine’Luce 85: O.21

1.2.4“Old Kuki”4

Kom Remməmorpheme◦ǰun ‘urine’Toba 91 KRQ: 9.7.1
Kom Remməmorpheme◦ǰun nəmorpheme v‘urinate’Toba 91 KRQ: 9.7.2
Moyonbʌjin ~ jim◦sə́morpheme ‘urine’Kosha 90: 9.7.1
Moyonnjin ~ nbʌjin v‘urinate’Kosha 90: 9.7.2

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)1

Lotha Nagaʒə- v.‘leak’Bruhn 14 SuppCN

1.4Meithei4

Meitheiyung ‘urine’Marrison 67 Naga
Meitheiyuŋ hanbəmorpheme v.‘urinate’Singh 91 MeiQ: 9.7.2

1.5Mikir [Karbi]4

Mikir [Karbi]bármorpheme-só ‘urine’Grüssner 79 BP: 151
Mikir [Karbi]barmorpheme-sō(ʔ) ‘urine’Mikir bar ‘come out, exude’ (cf. bar-pi ‘shit’).Weidert 87 TBTo: 61
Mikir [Karbi]barmorpheme◦so ‘urine’Marrison 67 Naga
Mikir [Karbi]barmorpheme◦so ‘urine’Matisoff 87 BP

1.7.1.1Bodo3

Bodohamorpheme◦su ‘urine’Weidert 87 TBTo: 61
Bodohamorpheme◦su ‘urine’Matisoff 87 BP
Mechehamorpheme◦su ‘urine’Weidert 87 TBTo: 61

1.7.1.2Garo2

Garosu-bumorpheme- ‘urine’Matisoff 87 BP
Garosuʔ◦bumorpheme ‘urine’Weidert 87 TBTo: 61

1.7.1.3Koch3

Atongdimorpheme◦su- v‘piss, to pass urine, to do number one, to urinate’van Breugel 08 Atong
Atongdimorpheme◦su◦tyimorpheme n‘piss’van Breugel 08 Atong
Atongdimorpheme◦su◦tyimorpheme◦tupmorpheme n‘urine bladder’van Breugel 08 Atong

1.7.3.1Jingpho7

Jingphokă³¹prefixjun³³ v.‘leak’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1506.19
Jingphokă³¹prefixjun³³ ‘leak’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 769.47
Jingphokă̱¹prefixjun³³ ‘leak’Liu 84
Jingphokəprefix◦yūn ‘leak’Matisoff 74 TJLB: 119
Jingphokəmorpheme◦yun ‘leak’Benedict 72 STC: 430

3.1Tangut3

Tangut [Xixia]sui wɪemorpheme v.‘urinate’Dai 89 Xixi: 9.7.2

4Nungic1

Anongəprefix◦yü ‘leak’Benedict 72 STC: 430

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #2795, *b-yəw-n/t ‘LEAK / DRIP / URINE’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2795
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. STC#430, HPTB p.441
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-2795,
  title  = {{*b-yəw-n/t 'LEAK / DRIP / URINE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #2795},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/2795}
}