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STEDT #358

*ta-y

FOREHEAD
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handletainitialtrhymea-ysuffixycoverT · VW

Notes

This provisionally reconstructed root seems to appear only in non-initial position in compounds. The vocalism mostly varies from -a to -i or -e.

Reflexes & cognates51 reflexes · 9 subgroups

2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang3

Khamcãːmorpheme◦di ‘forehead’Watters 89 KhQ: 2.A.18
Khamcãːmorpheme◦di ‘forehead’Watters 89 KhQ: 2.A.18
Khamcḁ̄morpheme◦di ‘forehead’Matisoff 87 BP

5Tujia4

Tujia (Northern)kʰa⁵⁵#1209 PTB *ka ‘FRONT / FOREHEAD’ tʰa⁵⁵ kʰɨe⁵⁵morpheme ‘forehead’Tian 86
Tujiakʰa⁵⁵#1209 PTB *ka ‘FRONT / FOREHEAD’ tʰa⁵⁵ kʰɯe⁵⁵morpheme ‘forehead / brow’Chen 86 TuBQ: 3.2

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish10

Nusu (Southern)ʔo³¹#385 PTB *d-bu-s ‘HEAD / CENTER / SENIOR MALE RELATIVE / UNCLE’MesorootsPKC *ʔuu ‘ELDER SIBLING’Allofams1 #385 PTB *d-bu-s ‘HEAD / CENTER / SENIOR MALE RELATIVE / UNCLE’1a #1223 PTB *du ‘HEAD’ gɑ̃⁵⁵morpheme ti ³¹ ‘forehead’Sun J 86 Nusu

8Bai9

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #358, *ta-y ‘FOREHEAD’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/358
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-358,
  title  = {{*ta-y 'FOREHEAD'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #358},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/358}
}