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STEDT #3603

*war

SIT / PERCH
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Notes

Although this etymon is apparently associated particularly with sitting birds, it seems to be quite independent of #301 PTB *ʔu EGG / BIRD.

Reflexes & cognates5 reflexes · 2 subgroups

1.3.4Tangkhulic2

Tangkhulwor ‘sit (bird)’Bhat 69 TNV: 96
Ukhrulkʰəprefix-wor ‘sit on branch or post squarely’Mortensen 12 Tk

1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang3

Phomu³¹ ‘sit, cause to (e.g. baby, chicken)’Burling 98 Phom
Phomu⁵⁵ ‘sit’Burling 98 Phom

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #3603, *war ‘SIT / PERCH’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3603
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-3603,
  title  = {{*war 'SIT / PERCH'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #3603},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/3603}
}