*kywak

CHEST / RIB

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

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Connections

Poss. allofams*k(r)u ‘CHEST / RIB’, *kruːŋ ‘CAGE’

Notes

For a phonosemantically similar root, see #310 PTB *k(w)a CHEST.

Reflexes & cognates13 reflexes · 6 subgroups

1.1.1.1Western Tani5

Apataniàprefix-hú pàmorpheme-tamorpheme ‘rib’Sun J 93 Tani

Apataniàprefix-hɯ ‘rib’Sun J 93 Tani

Bengnifɯk-daːmorpheme ‘rib’Sun J 93 Tani

Bokarhuk-masuffix ‘rib’Sun J 93 Tani

Bokarɦuk masuffix n‘rib’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0135.24

Changkək laŋ#2045 PTB *s-ruŋ ‘ROUNDED PART’ ‘chest’It looks superficially as though the last syllable of this Chang form goes with #288 PTB *b/g-raŋ CHEST, but since -laŋ appears as a formative in several rounded bodyparts, we assign this syllable to #2045 PTB *s-ruŋ ROUNDED PART, following French 1983: 540.French 83: 540

2.1.1Western Himalayish1

Bunankyuk◦ṭoŋ#289 PTB *m-twa(k/ŋ) ‘CHEST / BREAST / RIB’PTk *tʰik ‘LUNG / CHEST’ ‘chest’Sharma, S.R. 91 Bu: 5.1

3.3.1rGyalrong1

rGyalrongtaprefix rnam#553 PTB *s-nam ‘RIB’PLB *ʔ-nam¹ ‘SIDE / RIB’ ŋkʰug ŋkʰuŋ#1276 PTB *kruːŋ ‘CAGE’ ‘rib cage’Dai 89 Jiar: 5.1.1

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #3399, *kywak ‘CHEST / RIB’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3399

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-3399,
  title  = {{*kywak 'CHEST / RIB'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #3399},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3399}
}