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STEDT #3348

*san

SHOULDER

Reconstruction analysis

handlesan¹initialsrhymean¹coverS · N

Notes

This seems to be confined to Burmish, but cf. also Yakha phak◦taŋ seːŋ◦kwɔk and Lisu læʔ²¹se³³. The Burmish reflexes are more or less evenly divided between -n and , so that the original position of the final nasal remains unclear.

Reflexes & cognates14 reflexes · 1 subgroup

6.1.1Burmish14

Atsi [Zaiwa]koʔ²¹morpheme san⁵¹ ‘shoulder’Xu 84 Zaiwa
Atsi [Zaiwa]koʔ²¹morphemesan⁵¹ n‘shoulder’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0090.30
Atsi [Zaiwa]koʔ²¹morphemesan⁵¹ ‘shoulder’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 250.42

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #3348, *san ‘SHOULDER’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3348
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: ("BRM") KEEP 6/2012
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-3348,
  title  = {{*san 'SHOULDER'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #3348},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3348}
}