STEDT #3374

*kwam

BREAST / MILK

Reconstruction analysis

handlekominitialkrhymeomcoverK · N

Notes

This root has so far been identified only in a few languages of the NE Indian Areal Group, though there is a possible Dumi (Himalayish) cognate. Several languages (Kom Rem, Meithei, Moyon) have compounds where this root occurs as second element, after a syllable səŋ-/sʌŋ-. This latter element bears a resemblance to #3431 PTB *syaŋ VAGINA / CLITORIS, below.

This root was reconstructed as *kom in TBRS: #64.

Reflexes & cognates15 reflexes · 4 subgroups

1.2.4“Old Kuki”2

Kom Remsəŋmorpheme kʰom ‘milk’Toba 91 KRQ: 5.4.3

Moyonsʌŋmorpheme◦ŋom ‘milk’Note assimilation of the medial consonants.Kosha 90: 5.4.3

1.4Meithei11

Meitheikhom ‘breast’Singh 91 MeiQ: 5.4

Meitheikhom ‘udder (of cow, goat)’Singh 91 MeiQ: 5.4.2

Meitheikhom ‘milk’Singh 91 MeiQ: 5.4.3

Meitheikhom ‘breast’Marrison 67 Naga

Meitheikhôm ‘breast milk’Matisoff 87 BP

Meitheikhom khaynəmorpheme◦bə ‘wean’Meithei khaynə ‘to part, to separate’.Singh 91 MeiQ: 5.4.7

Meitheikhom pimorpheme◦thəkmorpheme◦pəsuffix v.‘nurse / suckle’Singh 91 MeiQ: 5.4.6

Meitheikhom-pi#276 PTB *(p/b)i ‘ROUNDED PART / NIPPLE / FOREHEAD / SHOULDER’ ‘nipple’Matisoff 87 BP

Meitheikhom◦jinmorpheme ‘nipple’Singh 91 MeiQ: 5.4.1

Meitheisanmorpheme◦gom ‘milk’Marrison 67 Naga

Meitheisəŋmorpheme◦gom ‘milk’Singh 91 MeiQ: 5.4.3

1.5Mikir [Karbi]1

Mikir [Karbi]kúm◦búmorpheme ‘breast (poetic)’Grüssner 79 BP: 50

2.3.3Central Kiranti1

Dumidɨ#3466 IA *du-t ‘MILK / BREAST’◦dhɨ#3466 IA *du-t ‘MILK / BREAST’◦kwam ‘nipples (human)’Driem 93 Dumi

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #3374, *kwam ‘BREAST / MILK’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3374

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-3374,
  title  = {{*kwam 'BREAST / MILK'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #3374},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3374}
}