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STEDT #337

*guːl

BULGE / BEND
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · provisional

Intermediate reconstructions

Kuki-Chin*kuun ‘BEND / DROOP / STOOP’PKC #257
Kuki-Chin*kuul ‘HUNCHBACKED’PKC #293

Reflexes & cognates22 reflexes · 7 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmanguːl ‘bulge / bend’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 592

1.2Kuki-Chin2

*Chinkuul ‘HUNCHBACKED’VanBik 09 PKC: 293
*Chinkuun ‘BEND / DROOP / STOOP’VanBik 09 PKC: 257

1.2.1.1Northern Chin8

Sizangkawn sakmorpheme hīmorpheme ‘bewitch’VanBik 09 PKC: 257
Thadokûun-I, kùun-II ‘bend, droop, depressed’VanBik 09 PKC: 257
Tiddimkul² >x kulʔ³ ‘hunchbacked’VanBik 09 PKC: 293
Tiddimkuːn¹ ‘bow’VanBik 09 PKC: 257
Tiddimkuːn¹ ‘bow’Bhaskararao 94 TCV
Tiddimˊkuːn/ˋkuːn v‘bow’Henderson 65 TidC

1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin5

Ashokunˊˊ ‘stoop’VanBik 09 PKC: 257
Ashokʻuˊˊ-́i ‘bend’VanBik 09 PKC: 293
Khumidéwngmorphemekuung ‘roughly triangular shaped bent piece of bamboo which serves as the frame for a dewng trap; this is attached to a tree or pole with bamboo twine’VanBik 09 PKC: 257
Khuminiethókahíwngmorpheme’akaawy ‘hunchbacked’VanBik 09 PKC: 293

1.2.2Central Chin5

Lai (Hakha)kûul-I, kǔul-II be v.‘hunchbacked’VanBik 09 PKC: 293
Lai (Hakha)kûun-I, kǔun-II v‘bend, stoop’VanBik 09 PKC: 257
Lai (Falam)kúun-INV ‘bend, stoop’VanBik 09 PKC: 257
Lushai [Mizo]kǔun v‘stoop, to lean or bend forward, to bend down, to bow down’VanBik 09 PKC: 257
Lushai [Mizo]kuːn v‘bend forward’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 2608

1.2.3Maraic2

Lakher [Mara]pàmorpheme-kó v‘bend as the legs or arms’VanBik 09 PKC: 257

6.1.1Burmish2

Burmese (Written)kûn ‘rise, bulge, stoop’Benedict 76 WBur
Burmese (Written)kun⁴ ‘hunchback; to stoop’Luce 85: W.127

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #337, *guːl ‘BULGE / BEND’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/337
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: HPTB p.418
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-337,
  title  = {{*guːl 'BULGE / BEND'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #337},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/337}
}