STEDT #3466

*du-t

MILK / BREAST

Reconstruction analysis

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Notes

This etymon is certainly of Indo-Aryan origin, from a root duh- (cf. Nepali dudh ‘milk’, Hale 1973, p.166). See the series of entries beginning with dugdhá- in Turner 1966 (A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages), pp. 365-6.

Reflexes & cognates19 reflexes · 10 subgroups

1.1.1.1Western Tani1

Bengni(dɯ)-bjuŋ#3453 PTani *bruŋ ‘SUCK’ ‘suck’Sun J 93 Tani

1.1.1.2Eastern Tani1

Milang(gakir)loanword tut-masuffix ‘milk’Tayeng 76 Mil

1.1.2Deng5

Darang [Taraon]du⁵⁵ ‘suck (milk)’Sun H 80 MLD

Darang [Taraon]du⁵⁵ v.‘suck’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1648.22

Idudo◦gamorpheme ‘kiss’Pulu 78

Idudo◦gamorpheme ‘suck’Pulu 78

Idudo◦gamorpheme ‘suck’Anonymous 62 Idu

1.3.3Zeme Group1

Khoiraoaprefix◦tu◦thui#298 PTB *m-t(w)əy-n ⪤ *m-ti-s ‘WATER / FLUID / LIQUID / RIVER / SOAK / SPIT’PKC *tuy ‘WATER / FLUID / LIQUID’PTk *dɨ ‘WATER’PLB *m/ʔ-titᴴ ‘WET / SOAK’PKar *thejᴬ ‘WATER’ ‘milk’Marrison 67 Naga

1.7.1.1Bodo1

Kokborokdu ‘milk’Tripuri 88

2.2Newar2

Newar (Kathmandu)du-du-pwamorpheme-(la)morpheme ‘breast’Lit. “milk-container”; Newar pwala ‘round object, container’.Malla 07 PC

Newar (Dolakhali)du◦du ‘vagina / breast / milk’According to K. P. Malla (p.c. 2007), the basic meaning of this form is ‘breast’, although it is also used euphemistically for ‘vagina’. He is doubtful that the same word is used for all three glosses.Genetti 90 Dola

2.3.3Central Kiranti1

Dumidɨ◦dhɨ◦kwam#3374 PTB *kwam ‘BREAST / MILK’ ‘nipples (human)’Driem 93 Dumi

2.3.4Western Kiranti1

Thulungdiu◦diu ‘milk’Allen 75

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #3466, *du-t ‘MILK / BREAST’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3466

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

References: cf. Nepali dudh

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-3466,
  title  = {{*du-t 'MILK / BREAST'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #3466},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3466}
}