*m-kuk

COLLIDE / BUTT AGAINST

Proto-Loloish · provisional

Reconstruction analysis

prefixminitialkrhymeuk

Notes

This root occurs in several Loloish languages, but has yet to be unambiguously attested elsewhere.

Reflexes & cognates5 reflexes · 3 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmanm-kuk ‘collide / butt against’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 597

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish1

Yi (Liangshan)ŋgu̱³³ ‘bump (hit); strike (hit)’also contains *k(r)okMa 08 Yi: index

6.1.2.2Central Loloish4

Lahugûʔ ‘butt with head’Benedict 72 STC: 50n166

Lahu (Black)gûʔ ‘collide / butt / bump into’also contains *k(r)okMatisoff 72 LTSR: 80

Lisu (Northern)pɔ³³morphemegu²¹ V‘butt’Bradley 94 Lisu

Sani [Nyi]gɤ 44 ‘collide / butt / bump into’also contains *k(r)okMatisoff 72 LTSR: 80

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #445, *m-kuk ‘COLLIDE / BUTT AGAINST’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/445

Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].

References: cf. HPTB p.357, TSR#80

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-445,
  title  = {{*m-kuk 'COLLIDE / BUTT AGAINST'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #445},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/445}
}