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STEDT #3476

*duk ⪤ *tu

LOVE / DESIRE / WANT
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handledukinitialdrhymeu(k)coverT · T

Intermediate reconstructions

Kuki-Chin*ɗuʔ ‘WANT / CRAVE / LACK’PKC #116

Notes

This etymon is well-attested in the NE Indian Areal Group, with good-looking cognates in Himalayish and Loloish. Two allofams should be reconstructed, one with and one without final *-k. The Idu and Loloish forms point to an allofam with *voiceless initial, while the Moyon form reflects an evidently secondary nasal prefix.

Reflexes & cognates24 reflexes · 11 subgroups

1.2Kuki-Chin1

*Chinɗuʔ ‘WANT / CRAVE / LACK’VanBik 09 PKC: 116

1.2.1.1Northern Chin4

Paiteduh ‘crave, like’VanBik 09 PKC: 116
Tiddimdu?³ v‘desire food’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 280
Tiddimduʔ³ ‘desire food’VanBik 09 PKC: 116
Tiddimduʔ³ ‘desire food’Bhaskararao 94 TCV

1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin1

Cho (Mindat)du be v.‘destitute, in want, needy’VanBik 09 PKC: 116

1.2.2Central Chin7

Lai (Hakha)duʔ ‘want, crave, like, lack’VanBik 09 PKC: 116
Lai (Falam)dùʔ ‘want, crave, like’VanBik 09 PKC: 116
Lushai [Mizo]dùh ‘want, wish, need, require, desire, like’Van Bik, K. 95 Lai: 116
Lushai [Mizo]dùh v.‘want, wish, need, require, desire, like’VanBik 09 PKC: 116

1.2.3Maraic1

Lakher [Mara]dū ‘love (by grandmother)’VanBik 09 PKC: 116

1.2.4“Old Kuki”1

Moyonntu ‘copulate’Kosha 90: 10.2

2.1.4Tamangish1

Tamang (Sahu)tuːh 'timorpheme-pasuffix v.‘mourn’Taylor 72 TmVo: 21.A.53

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish1

6.1.2.2Central Loloish4

Lahu (Black)cha#1354 PTB *tsya ‘VAGINA / COPULATE’ thû ‘feel sexual desire (woman); lubricate’Matisoff 88 DL: 681
Lahu (Black)thû be v.‘feel sexual desire; be horny (man or woman)’Matisoff 87 BP

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #3476, *duk ⪤ *tu ‘LOVE / DESIRE / WANT’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3476
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: mostly in Chin
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-3476,
  title  = {{*duk ⪤ *tu 'LOVE / DESIRE / WANT'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #3476},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3476}
}