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STEDT #3333

*swap

BUTTOCKS / TAIL

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handleswa-pinitialswrhymea-pcoverS · VT

Notes

This sparsely attested root occurs mostly in Qiangic, with plausible Loloish cognates. The only language to preserve the final *-p is rGyalrong.

Reflexes & cognates33 reflexes · 3 subgroups

3.2Qiangic14

Muya [Minyak]zo⁵³ ‘buttocks’Sun H 91 MuyQ: 5.10.1

Muya [Minyak]zo⁵³ ‘buttocks’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 262.15

Pumi (Qinghua)so¹³ ‘buttocks’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 262.11

Qiang (Longxi)phùmorpheme-suà ‘front of Chinese jacket [clothes-tail]’Evans 99 Qiang: 627

Qiang (Longxi)suà kà#219 PTB *k(w)a(ŋ/k) ‘WAIST / HIPS / BUTTOCKS / TAIL / BACK’ ‘tail’Evans 99 Qiang: 334

Qiang (Longxi)suà qámorpheme ‘in back (qá='tail end')’Evans 99 Qiang: 1048

Qiang (Mawo)su ka#219 PTB *k(w)a(ŋ/k) ‘WAIST / HIPS / BUTTOCKS / TAIL / BACK’ ‘tail’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 177.8

Qiang (Mawo)su kuæ#219 PTB *k(w)a(ŋ/k) ‘WAIST / HIPS / BUTTOCKS / TAIL / BACK’ ‘tail (of animal)’Sun H 91 MawQ: 5.10.3

Qiang (Mawo)su◦ka#219 PTB *k(w)a(ŋ/k) ‘WAIST / HIPS / BUTTOCKS / TAIL / BACK’ ‘tail’Sun H 81 Qia

Qiang (Mawo)sɛ kuɛ#219 PTB *k(w)a(ŋ/k) ‘WAIST / HIPS / BUTTOCKS / TAIL / BACK’ n‘tail’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0267.08

Qiang (Mianchi)suà kè#219 PTB *k(w)a(ŋ/k) ‘WAIST / HIPS / BUTTOCKS / TAIL / BACK’ ‘tail’Evans 99 Qiang: 334

Qiang (Taoping)suɑ⁵⁵ kie³³#219 PTB *k(w)a(ŋ/k) ‘WAIST / HIPS / BUTTOCKS / TAIL / BACK’ ‘tail’Sun H 81 Qia

Qiang (Taoping)suɑ⁵⁵kie³³#219 PTB *k(w)a(ŋ/k) ‘WAIST / HIPS / BUTTOCKS / TAIL / BACK’ ‘tail’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 177.9

Qiang (Yadu)si kue#219 PTB *k(w)a(ŋ/k) ‘WAIST / HIPS / BUTTOCKS / TAIL / BACK’ ‘tail’Dai 89 Qian: 334

3.3.1rGyalrong11

rGyalrongtaprefix sop ‘buttocks’Dai 89 Jiar: 5.10.1

rGyalrongtaprefix sop ‘buttocks’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 262.12

rGyalrongtaprefix sop kʰoi#665 PTB *kwar ‘HOLE / ORIFICE / INNARDS’PKC *kuar ‘HOLLOW / SUNKEN’PKC *kua ‘HOLE / BURROW / CAVITY’PKC *khur ⪤ *khor ‘DITCH / HOLE / PIT / WELL (n.)’PCN *a-ku ⪤ *a-khən ‘HOLE’PTk *kʰur ‘HOLE / ANUS’PNN *gor ‘HOLE / CAVE’ jdu#822 PTB *dwa(ː)ŋ ‘HOLE / ORIFICE / CAVE / PIT / WELL (FOR WATER)’ ‘anus / rectum’Dai 89 Jiar: 9.12

rGyalrongtaprefix◦sop ‘hips’Dai 89 Jiar: 5.8.1

rGyalrong (Eastern)taprefix◦sop ‘buttocks’Sun H 91 rEQ: 1.10

rGyalrong (Eastern)taprefix◦sop ‘hips’Sun H 91 rEQ: 5.8.1

rGyalrong (Eastern)taprefix◦sop pʰeluŋmorpheme ‘crotch / fork of legs’Sun H 91 rEQ: 5.9

rGyalrongtaprefix◦sop ɕɛrə#234 PTB *s-rus ‘BONE’Allofams1 #232 PTB *s/m/g-rus ‘BONE’1a #234 PTB *s-rus ‘BONE’1b #233 PTB *g-rus ‘BONE’ ‘hipbone’Dai 89 Jiar: 5.8.2

rGyalrong (Eastern)taprefix◦sop ʃɐre#234 PTB *s-rus ‘BONE’Allofams1 #232 PTB *s/m/g-rus ‘BONE’1a #234 PTB *s-rus ‘BONE’1b #233 PTB *g-rus ‘BONE’ ‘hipbone’Sun H 91 rEQ: 5.8.2

rGyalrong (Eastern)waprefix◦sop pʰak#3326 PTB *pa(ŋ/k) ‘BACK / BOTTOM / UNDER / BEHIND’PNN *pʰaŋ ‘UNDER’ ‘buttocks’Sun H 91 rEQ: 5.10.1

rGyalrongtaprefix sop ‘hips’Nagano 97 GyQ: 5.8.1

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish8

Nasumɔ²¹#1288 PTB *r-may ⪤ *m-ray ‘TAIL / PENIS’MesorootsPTani *me ~ *mjo ‘TAIL’PKC *C-may ‘TAIL’PLB *ʔ-m(r)ay² ‘TAIL’PL *ʔmri² ‘TAIL’Allofams1 #1288 PTB *r-may ⪤ *m-ray ‘TAIL / PENIS’1a #5545 PTB *r-mey ‘TAIL’ ʂu³³ ‘tail (of animal)’Chen 86 Yi: 5.10.3

Noesume²¹#1288 PTB *r-may ⪤ *m-ray ‘TAIL / PENIS’MesorootsPTani *me ~ *mjo ‘TAIL’PKC *C-may ‘TAIL’PLB *ʔ-m(r)ay² ‘TAIL’PL *ʔmri² ‘TAIL’Allofams1 #1288 PTB *r-may ⪤ *m-ray ‘TAIL / PENIS’1a #5545 PTB *r-mey ‘TAIL’ʂu³³ ‘tail’Chen 86 Yi: 5.10.3

Nosuphu²¹morphemeʂu³³ ‘tail’Chen 86 Yi: 5.10.3

Yi (Dafang)mo²¹#1288 PTB *r-may ⪤ *m-ray ‘TAIL / PENIS’MesorootsPTani *me ~ *mjo ‘TAIL’PKC *C-may ‘TAIL’PLB *ʔ-m(r)ay² ‘TAIL’PL *ʔmri² ‘TAIL’Allofams1 #1288 PTB *r-may ⪤ *m-ray ‘TAIL / PENIS’1a #5545 PTB *r-mey ‘TAIL’so³³ ‘tail’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 177.22

Yi (Xide)phu²¹morphemeʂu³³ n‘tail’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0267.35

Yi (Xide)phu²¹morphemeʂu³³ ‘tail’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 177.21

Yi (Xide)pʰu²¹morpheme ʂu³³ ‘tail’Chen 85 YiJZ

Yi (Xide)pʰu²¹morpheme-ʂu³³ ‘tail’Chen 79 YiCh

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #3333, *swap ‘BUTTOCKS / TAIL’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3333

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-3333,
  title  = {{*swap 'BUTTOCKS / TAIL'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #3333},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3333}
}