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STEDT #4328

*phuum

BURY / COVER / IMMERGE
Proto-Kuki-Chin · provisional

Chinese comparandum

窆 OC *pi̯ɑm ~ *pəm, GSR #641c ‘bury (i.e. lower a coffin into a grave)’; Schuessler 2007:166 *pams < *poms; B & S 2011: (*pom-s); Mand. biǎn.

Reflexes & cognates19 reflexes · 9 subgroups

1.2Kuki-Chin1

1.2.1.1Northern Chin2

Paitephum ‘bury, inearth’VanBik 09 PKC: 328
Paitepūm hī ‘bury’VanBik 09 PKC: 328

1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin2

Cho (Mindat)phum v‘immerge s.th. in water’VanBik 09 PKC: 328
Khumitphung ‘bury’VanBik 09 PKC: 328

1.2.2Central Chin4

Lai (Hakha)phûum-I, phǔum-II ‘bury, inter, immerge, be covered with (middle voice)’VanBik 09 PKC: 328
Lai (Falam)phǔum-I, phùum-II ‘bury, inter’VanBik 09 PKC: 328
Lushai [Mizo]phúum ‘bury, inter’VanBik 09 PKC: 328

1.3“Naga” Areal Group1

Maringphum ‘bury’Marrison 67 Naga

1.3.3Zeme Group1

Puironphum ‘bury’Marrison 67 Naga

1.3.4Tangkhulic1

Tangkhulphùm ‘bury’Bhat 69 TNV: 85

1.4Meithei1

5Tujia7

Tujia (Northern)luo4morphemebong3 n+vt.‘bury a person’Brassett 04 Tujia
Tujia (Northern)luo⁴morphemebong³ v‘bury a person’Brassett 06 Tujia: 2.3
Tujia (Northern)phũ²¹ ‘bury (something)’Tian 86
Tujiapoŋ²¹ ‘bury (something)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 667.38

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #4328, *phuum ‘BURY / COVER / IMMERGE’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/4328
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: PKC #328
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-4328,
  title  = {{*phuum 'BURY / COVER / IMMERGE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #4328},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/4328}
}