*(p/b)(i/u)k

BORN / GIVE BIRTH

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handleBukinitialp/brhymeukcoverP · T

Intermediate reconstructions

Central Naga (Ao Group)*puk ‘SPRING FORTH / ORIGINATE / BE BORN’PCN #260

Notes

This root may well be related to #3488 PTB *(p/b)uk HATCH (egg).

Reflexes & cognates17 reflexes · 8 subgroups

1.1.1.1Western Tani1

Bengni(kuː)morpheme bɯŋ ‘birth, give’Bengni -ŋ is unexplained.Sun J 93 Tani

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)5

*Central Nagapuk ‘SPRING FORTH / ORIGINATE / BE BORN’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.260

Ao (Chungli)a³prefix-puk³ v.‘originate, spring forth’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.260

Lotha Nagapok²- v.‘be born’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.260

Lotha Nagapok v‘birth, give’Marrison 67 Naga

Lotha Nagapok◦chosuffix ‘born’Murry 78: 11

1.4Meithei2

Meitheipok ‘birth, give’Marrison 67 Naga

Meitheiəprefix◦ŋaŋ#1864 PTB *naŋ ‘GIVE BIRTH’ pok◦pəsuffix v.‘birth, give’Meithei ə ŋaŋ ‘child’ (cf. Lhoba aŋaː, Yi (Dafang) a³³ŋa⁵⁵, as well as set #90 PTB *m/s-ŋa-y SMALL / INFERIOR / OFFSPRING).Singh 91 MeiQ: 10.4.15

1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang4

Changpuk ‘birth, give’Marrison 67 Naga

Phombüh ‘birth, give’Marrison 67 Naga

Phombəʔ v‘birth, give’W.T. French (1983:455) assigned Phom bəʔ to PNN *ʔ-bəw; see #1811 PTB *ʔ-bu ⪤ *pu BORN / BIRTH / BUD / BLOOM.French 83: 455

Phombɯʔ³³ ‘give birth’Burling 98 Phom

2.1.2Bodic2

Tsangla (Motuo)phok ‘bloom’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 789.7

Tsangla (Motuo)pʰek⁵⁵ v.‘birth, give (of an animal)’Zhang Jichuan 86

2.3.2Southern Kiranti2

Bantawapuk- v.‘birth, give (medical)’Rai 84 BnDc: 59

Chamlingpuk-(a)suffix v.‘birth, give (animal)’Winter 85: 29

2.3.3Central Kiranti1

Dumibɨk◦nɨsuffix v‘birth, give (of non-humans)’Driem 93 Dumi

6.1.1Burmish1

Hpun (Northern)ăsă#1012 PTB *za-n ‘CHILD’MesorootsPKC *θaa ‘CHILD / OFFSPRING / SON / DAUGHTER’PBG *sa ‘CHILD’Allofams1 #428 PTB *tsa-n ⪤ *za-n ‘CHILD / SON / RELATIVES’1a #1012 PTB *za-n ‘CHILD’1b #2727 PTB *tsa-n ‘CHILD / GRANDCHILD / NEPHEW / NIECE’ phóʔ ‘birth, give’ăsă means “child”.Henderson 86 Hpun

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #3480, *(p/b)(i/u)k ‘BORN / GIVE BIRTH’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3480

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

References: ("HIM")

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-3480,
  title  = {{*(p/b)(i/u)k 'BORN / GIVE BIRTH'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #3480},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3480}
}