STEDT
STEDT #398

*m-pu

HIPS
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · exemplary

Reconstruction analysis

handlepuinitialprhymeucoverP · V

Intermediate reconstructions

Tangkhulic* ‘BUTTOCKS / HIP’DRM#640

Connections

Reflexes & cognates43 reflexes · 15 subgroups

1.3.4Tangkhulic4

*Tangkhulic ‘buttocks / hip’Mortensen 12 Tk: 640
Kachaipu-ʃitmorpheme-tʰimorpheme ‘hip, hips’Mortensen 12 Tk: BodyParts.140
Kachaiʔamorpheme-pu-ʃit ‘buttocks; back (of something)’Mortensen 12 Tk: BodyParts.144
Tusompo-timorpheme ‘buttocks’Mortensen 12 Tk: BodyParts.155

2.1.2Bodic2

Kaikekhyumorpheme-bu ‘hips’Matisoff 87 BP
Kaikekhyumorphemebu ‘hip’Matisoff 87 BP

2.1.4Tamangish1

Chantyalcẽymorpheme pho ‘groin / loins / hips’Noonan 92: 1.10

3.2Qiangic3

Guiqiongbo³³ bo⁵³#404 PTB *(p/b)waŋ ‘HIPS / BUTTOCKS / TAIL / ANUS’ ‘buttocks’It is not clear which of the two syllables descends from the present root, or whether some type of reduplication is involved.Sun H 91 GuiQ

3.3.1rGyalrong5

rGyalrong (Northern)prefixmpʰos ‘hips’Sun H 91 rNQ: 5.8.1
rGyalrong (NW)prefixmpʰus ‘groin / loins / hips’Sun H 91 rNW: 1.10
rGyalrong (NW)prefixmpʰus ‘hips’Sun H 91 rNW: 5.8.1

5Tujia1

Tujiato⁵⁵morpheme po²¹ dɯ²¹morpheme go³⁵morpheme ‘bosom’Chen 86 TuMQ: 1.9

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #398, *m-pu ‘HIPS’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/398
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-398,
  title  = {{*m-pu 'HIPS'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #398},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/398}
}