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STEDT #3556

*ŋ-wa

TRAP
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

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Intermediate reconstructions

Tamangish*ᴮʰŋwa ‘TRAP’
Lolo-Burmese*wa³ ‘TRAP’

Connections

HPTB*wa ‘trap’p. 163

Notes

The Tamangic group has forms with initial ŋ-, while other languages reflect a simple *w-, leading to the hypothesis that ŋ has there been treated as a prefix and dropped. In any case, ŋ and w are extremely close phonetically, which might have encouraged the loss of the first element in a ŋw sequence.

Reflexes & cognates27 reflexes · 8 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

1.1.1.2Eastern Tani1

2.1.4Tamangish18

*TGTMᴮʰŋwa / ᴮʰŋwã ‘trap/bird-trap’Mazaudon 78 Tam: 34
*TGTMᴮʰŋwa n‘trap/bird-trap’Mazaudon 94 These: 230
Gurungngoqr syā:qbāmorpheme v‘catch (trap)’Hale 73 CSD: 03b.30
Gurung (Ghachok)ŋoqr syaːqbamorpheme v.‘catch / trap’Glover 72 GuVo: 3.B.30
Tamang (Sahu)'wa ‘trap (animals)’Taylor 72 TmVo: 8.25
Tamang (Sahu)'wa ‘trap (birds)’Taylor 72 TmVo: 8.26

2.3.2Southern Kiranti1

Kulungwo◦momorpheme ‘trap, sling [? noose]’Rai 75 Kul

6.1.2Loloish1

6.1.2.2Central Loloish8

Jinuovɔ³³tshɛ³¹morpheme n‘snare / trap’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0638.44
Lisu (Central)wa³-htu⁴morpheme ‘trap (for game)’Fraser 22
Lisu (Northern)wa³³thu³³morpheme ‘place a trap; install a catching loop; install a net’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)wa³³tɕhe²¹morpheme ‘toilet (lit. 'feces trap')’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ɲa³⁵#3442 PTB *s-ŋak ‘BIRD’PLB *s-ŋ(y)akᴴ ‘BIRD’wa³³ thi²¹morpheme ɣɔʔ²¹morpheme A‘set of bird-knots (trap to catch birds)’Bradley 94 Lisu
Lisu (Northern)ɲa³⁵#3442 PTB *s-ŋak ‘BIRD’PLB *s-ŋ(y)akᴴ ‘BIRD’wa³³tsɤ³⁵morpheme thi²¹morpheme ɣɔʔ²¹morpheme n‘trap used in catching birds’Bradley 94 Lisu

6.1.2.3Southern Loloish1

Mpihɑ² ‘trap’Srinuan 76

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #3556, *ŋ-wa ‘TRAP’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3556
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. HPTB p. 163, JAM-LITB 8.0
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-3556,
  title  = {{*ŋ-wa 'TRAP'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #3556},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3556}
}