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STEDT #3583

*r/m-ba

WAVE (in water) / RIPPLE
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Connections

HPTB*m-ba ‘wave (in water)’p. 174

Notes

The nasal prefix is confirmed by the voiced initials in Lahu. The r- and d- prefixes are directly attested in Tibetan. It has been shown that the semantically mysterious r- prefix is reflected by a syllabic nasal in Jingpho (STC p. 109), indicating that the former is more ancient in TB as a whole. The d- in Tibetan is not paralleled elsewhere as far as is now known.

Chinese comparandum

波 OC *pwɑ̂, GSR #25l ‘wave, surge’; Baxter 92:1049 *paj; Mand. bō.

Reflexes & cognates41 reflexes · 10 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmanm-ba ‘wave (in water)’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 584

1.1.1.1Western Tani2

Bokarbu ɕarmorpheme n‘wave’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0048.24
Bokarbu-sarmorpheme ‘wave’Sun J 93 Tani

2.1.2.1Tibetan11

Tibetan (Batang)ba¹³lɑuʔ⁵³morpheme n‘wave’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0048.03
Tibetan (Lhasa)pə¹³ləp⁵²morpheme n‘wave’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0048.02
Tibetan (Written)dba'-kloŋmorpheme n‘wave, billow’Jäschke 1881: p.386
Tibetan (Written)dba'-tʻsúbmorpheme n‘surge, roar, turmoil of waves’Jäschke 1881: p.386
Tibetan (Written)rba-kloŋmorpheme n‘wave, billow’Jäschke 1881: p.386
Tibetan (Written)rba-kloŋsmorpheme n‘waves’Das 1902: p.935
Tibetan (Written)rba-rlábsmorpheme n‘wave, billow’Jäschke 1881: p.386
Tibetan (Written)rba-skyamorpheme n‘whitish waves’Jäschke 1881: p.386

2.1.4Tamangish1

Tamang (Sahu)syoŋmorpheme◦kimorpheme pah◦kʰarmorpheme ‘coast’Taylor 72 TmVo: 5.76

3.2Qiangic3

Muyaba³³lɐ⁵³morpheme n‘wave’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0048.15
Pumi (Lanping)tʃə⁵⁵morphemefpa⁵⁵ n‘wave’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0048.09
Xumidʑɛ³³morphemetɛ³³morphemenbu⁵³ n‘wave’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0048.17

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish2

Yi (Weishan)ɣɯ⁵⁵morphemelɑ²¹morphemebɑ²¹ n‘wave’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0048.36
Yi (Xide)ʑɿ³³morphemembo³³ n‘wave’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0048.35

6.1.2.2Central Loloish13

Jinuopə³³tɕy³³morphemeji⁴⁴morphemeno⁴⁴morpheme n‘wave’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0048.44
Lahu (Black)bâ n‘wave; ripple’Matisoff 88 DL: p929
Lahu (Black)íprefix-kâʔmorpheme=bâ n‘wave (in water)’Matisoff 88 DL: p929
Lahu (Black)ɔ̀prefix-bâ(-nâmorpheme) ‘roll of fat; wave, ripple; wave’Matisoff 87 BP: 168
Lahu (Black)ɔ̀prefix-bâ(=nâmorpheme) n‘wave; ripple’Matisoff 88 DL: p929

7Karenic6

Bwe (Western)lɔ̆³morphemepɔ¹ ‘wave’Luce 85: E.10
Pakulə̆morpheme◦pɔ¹ ‘wave’Luce 85: E.10
Pwo (Delta)lə̆morpheme◦pɔ² ‘wave’Luce 85: E.10
Pwo (Tenasserim)lə̆morpheme◦pɔ⁵ ‘wave’Luce 85: E.10
Sgawlə̆morpheme◦pɔ¹ ‘wave’Luce 85: E.10
Sgaw (Bassein)lə³morphemepɔ⁵⁵ n‘wave (in the ocean)’Matisoff 00 FM: 0048.50

8Bai1

Bai (Jianchuan)po⁵⁵no⁴²morpheme n‘wave’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0048.48

9.0.1Old Chinese2

Chinese (Old/Mid)pwɑ̂/puɑ̂ ‘wave / surge; be shaken as on waves’Karlgren 57 GSR: 25l

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #3583, *r/m-ba ‘WAVE (in water) / RIPPLE’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3583
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: Cook (2000)
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-3583,
  title  = {{*r/m-ba 'WAVE (in water) / RIPPLE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #3583},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3583}
}