Reconstruction analysis
handleseninitialsrhymeencoverS · N
Notes
This etymon is still not well established, with only scattered reflexes in Himalayish, Lolo-Burmese, Karenic, and Baic. The final nasal is reconstructed on the basis of the vowel nasalization in some Bai dialects.
Reflexes & cognates19 reflexes · 6 subgroups
2.1.5Dhimal1
2.3.4Western Kiranti1
Hayuseː◦thoŋmorpheme ‘testicle’It is possible that Hayu se: is rather < #1019 PTB *sey FRUIT / ROSE / ROUND OBJECT.Matisoff 87 BP
6.1.2.1Northern Loloish1
6.1.2.3Southern Loloish2
Côông [Phunoi]shɛ̀◦ʔu#301 PTB *ʔu ‘EGG / BIRD’Allofams1 #1168 PTB *pʷu ‘EGG / BIRD / ROUND OBJECT’1a #301 PTB *ʔu ‘EGG / BIRD’1b #1654 PTB *pu ‘EGG’1c #1275 PTB *pu ‘BALL / EGG / ROUND OBJECT’ ‘testicle’Matisoff 87 BP
Côông [Phunoi]sʰɛ¹¹ ʔu³³#301 PTB *ʔu ‘EGG / BIRD’Allofams1 #1168 PTB *pʷu ‘EGG / BIRD / ROUND OBJECT’1a #301 PTB *ʔu ‘EGG / BIRD’1b #1654 PTB *pu ‘EGG’1c #1275 PTB *pu ‘BALL / EGG / ROUND OBJECT’ ‘testicles’Bradley xx Phu
7Karenic2
Pwo (Tenasserim)sʻə̆⁴◦đi¹#300 PTB *d(w)əy ‘EGG / TESTICLE’MesorootsPKC *ɗu(u)y ⪤ *tu(u)y ‘EGG’PTk *dɨ ‘EGG’PKar *Ɂdejᴮ ‘EGG’Allofams2a #300 PTB *d(w)əy ‘EGG / TESTICLE’2b #1181 PTB *d(i/u)l ‘EGG / TESTICLE’ ‘egg, tuber, testicles’Luce 85: G.80
Pwo (Delta)sʻə̆◦đi⁴#300 PTB *d(w)əy ‘EGG / TESTICLE’MesorootsPKC *ɗu(u)y ⪤ *tu(u)y ‘EGG’PTk *dɨ ‘EGG’PKar *Ɂdejᴮ ‘EGG’Allofams2a #300 PTB *d(w)əy ‘EGG / TESTICLE’2b #1181 PTB *d(i/u)l ‘EGG / TESTICLE’ ‘egg, tuber, testicles’Luce 85: G.80
8Bai12
Cite this entry
STEDT etymon #3439,
*syan ‘TESTICLE / EGG’.Stable link:
https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3439Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-3439,
title = {{*syan 'TESTICLE / EGG'}},
author = {STEDT},
year = {2017},
note = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #3439},
url = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3439}
}