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STEDT #318

*sin

BODY / OWNER / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Connections

Allofams

1 #5711 *sya-n ⪤ *sin ‘FLESH / ANIMAL / BODY / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’
1a #34 *sya-n ‘FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL’
1b #318 *sin ‘BODY / OWNER / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’

Chinese comparandum

身 OC *śi̯ĕn, GSR #386a-c; Mand. shēn.

Unclear whether Chinese 身 is to be considered a comparandum for both the current etymon #318 PTB *sin BODY / OWNER / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER and #34 PTB *sya-n FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL. If so, this would support the allofamic relationship between the two etyma argued for in #5711 PTB *sya-n ⪤ *sin FLESH / ANIMAL / BODY / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER.

Reflexes & cognates10 reflexes · 4 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmansin ‘body / owner / agentive nominalizer’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 613

1.1.2Deng6

Kaman [Miju]sîn ‘animal’Weidert 87 TBTo: 289

Kaman [Miju]śin⁵³ ‘meat, flesh’LaPolla 87: 127

Kaman [Miju]ɕin⁵³ ‘meat, flesh’Sun H 80 MLD

Kaman [Miju]ɕin⁵³ n‘flesh / muscle’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0128.23

Kaman [Miju]ɕin⁵³ n‘meat’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0443.23

Kaman [Miju]ɕin⁵³ ‘meat / flesh’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 399.48

6.1.1Burmish2

Burmese (Written)sañ ‘owner, proprietor’Benedict 76 WBur

Burmese (Written)əprefix-sañ ‘owner, proprietor’Benedict 76 WBur

6.1.2.2Central Loloish2

Lahu (Black)ɔ̀prefix-šɛ̄-ma#1619 PTB *ma ‘FEMALE / MOTHER / PRINCIPAL PART / FEMININE SUFFIX’PL *C-ma³ ‘FEMALE SUFFIX’PKar *məᴮ ‘MOTHER, FEMALE (OF ANIMALS)’ ‘body (female)’Matisoff 87 BP

Lahu (Black)ɔ̀prefix-šɛ̄-phâ#1634 PTB *p/ba ‘MALE / FATHER / 3p PRONOUN’PKC *paa ‘FATHER’PKC *paa ‘MALE’PCN *pa ‘HE / SHE (3sg.)’PTk *ba ‘FATHER / MALE’PKar *phaᴬ ‘MALE (OF ANIMALS), FATHER’ ‘body (male)’Matisoff 87 BP

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #318, *sin ‘BODY / OWNER / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/318

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

References: HPTB pp.278, 306, 449

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-318,
  title  = {{*sin 'BODY / OWNER / AGENTIVE NOMINALIZER'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #318},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/318}
}