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STEDT #3460

*laŋ

STOMACH / INTERNAL ORGAN
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · provisional

Reconstruction analysis

handlelaŋinitiallrhymeaŋcoverL · N

Notes

This root is of restricted distribution, occurring chiefly in Bodic and rGyalrongic.

Reflexes & cognates19 reflexes · 4 subgroups

1.2.4“Old Kuki”1

Kom Reməprefix pʰummorpheme ləŋ ‘pancreas’Toba 91 KRQ: 9.9

2.1.2Bodic8

2.1.4Tamangish1

Manang (Prakaa)⁴lə̃◦kumorpheme ‘stomach (human)’Hoshi 84: 0507a

3.3.1rGyalrong9

rGyalrong (Eastern)laŋ◦tʃɐmorpheme wamorpheme◦tʂɐm#42 PTB *tsow-s ‘FAT (v.a.) / OMENTUM’PCN *thu ‘OIL / GREASE / FAT’ ‘fat around intestines / omentum’The final -m in rGyalrongic tʂɐm is unexplained.Sun H 91 rEQ: 8.3.1
rGyalrong (Eastern)lɐn wemorpheme ‘appendix’Sun H 91 rEQ: 9.11.3
rGyalrong (Eastern)ləŋ◦tʃemorpheme kəjpammorpheme ‘large intestine’Sun H 91 rEQ: 9.11.1
rGyalrong (Eastern)ləŋ◦tʃemorpheme kətsimorpheme ‘small intestine’Sun H 91 rEQ: 9.11.2

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #3460, *laŋ ‘STOMACH / INTERNAL ORGAN’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3460
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: stomach, pancreas, lung, appendix
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-3460,
  title  = {{*laŋ 'STOMACH / INTERNAL ORGAN'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #3460},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3460}
}