STEDT #3482

*wat

GIVE BIRTH

Reconstruction analysis

handlewatinitialwrhymeatcoverL · T

Notes

This splendid little root is well-established in Himalayish (Chepang, Dumi), with likely cognates in Barish (Lalung) and Karenic.

Reflexes & cognates10 reflexes · 5 subgroups

1.7.1.1Bodo1

Lalung [Tiwa]hamorpheme◦je#95 PTB *s-kya-y ‘BORN / GIVE BIRTH’ o◦samorpheme v.‘birth, give’Balawan 65: 27

2.3.1Eastern Kiranti1

Limbukumorpheme-hiŋ#71 PTB *s-riŋ ⪤ *s-r(y)aŋ ‘LIVE / ALIVE / GREEN / RAW / GIVE BIRTH’PKC *hriŋ-I, hrin-II ‘GREEN / ALIVE / FRESH’PTk *hriŋ ‘ALIVE’PNN *criŋ ‘ALIVE’PNN *C-raŋ ‘ALIVE’PKir *hiŋ- ‘LIVE’PLB *tsiŋ² ‘LIVE’◦wEt ‘alive’Michailovsky 89 Lm

2.3.3Central Kiranti1

Dumiwaːt◦nɨsuffix v‘bear (children, offspring); yean, calve, whelp’Driem 93 Dumi

2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang5

Chepangcoʔmorpheme ʔo.samorpheme v‘birth, give (animals?)’Hale 73 CSD: 03b.46

Chepangcoʔmorpheme-ʔo-samorpheme ‘birth, give’Caughley 72 CVoc: 3.B.46

Chepangʔot-samorpheme ‘birth, give’Caughley 72 CVoc: 2.B.2. 11.

Chepangʔum#304 PTB *pʷum ‘EGG / SIT ON EGGS / HATCH / TESTICLE’ ʔot.sāmorpheme v‘lay egg’Hale 73 CSD: 03b.14

Chepang (Eastern)coʔmorpheme ʔot◦naʔmorpheme ‘birth, give’Caughley 90 CheQ: 10.4.15

7Karenic2

Karen (Sgaw/Hinthada)o̱³¹ pʰlɛ³¹#70 PTB *braŋ ‘BORN / BIRTH’PKC *piaŋ-I, pian-II ‘BORN (be)’ a³¹prefix pʰo⁵⁵#1811 PTB *ʔ-bu ⪤ *pu ‘BORN / BIRTH / BUD / BLOOM’ v‘birth, give’Dai 89 KarB: 2320

Karen (Sgaw/Yue)o̱³¹ pʰlɛ³¹#70 PTB *braŋ ‘BORN / BIRTH’PKC *piaŋ-I, pian-II ‘BORN (be)’ v‘birth, give’Dai 89 KarA: 2320

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #3482, *wat ‘GIVE BIRTH’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3482

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-3482,
  title  = {{*wat 'GIVE BIRTH'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #3482},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3482}
}