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STEDT #446

*pay

COME / GO

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Intermediate reconstructions

Northern Chin*paay ‘GO’PKC #149 ("PNC")

Notes

This root bares a fortuitous resemblance to a Proto-Tai root, cf. Siamese paj (see HCT:61, 205).

Reflexes & cognates36 reflexes · 9 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmanpay ‘come / go’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 606

1NE Indian Areal Group1

Kamarupanpay ‘come / go’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 139

1.2.1.1Northern Chin5

*Northern Chinpaay ‘GO’VanBik 09 PKC: 149

Sizangpai hī ‘go’VanBik 09 PKC: 149

Tiddimpai² ‘go’VanBik 09 PKC: 149

Tiddimpai² v‘go’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 1337

Tiddimpai² ‘go’Bhaskararao 94 TCV

1.7.1Bodo-Garo1

*Bodo-Garopəi ‘come’Burling 59 PBo: 440

1.7.1.1Bodo17

Bodopay v‘come’Bhat 68 Boro

Bodopay ‘come’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 139

Bodopay-báy#172 PTB *bay ‘REPEAT / PRACTICE’ ‘come again and again’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 107

Bodopay◦baymorpheme v‘come again and again’Bhat 68 Boro

Bodopay◦brobmorpheme v‘come in time’Bhat 68 Boro

Bodopay◦bróbmorpheme v‘come in a hurry’Bhat 68 Boro

Bodopay◦brəy#2409 PTB *b-ləy ‘FOUR’PTani *pri ‘FOUR’PTani *pri-ñi ‘EIGHT’PKC *lii ‘FOUR’PCN *phV-ləj ‘FOUR’PTk *ti ‘FOUR’PBG *brəi ‘FOUR’PNN *bə ləy ‘FOUR’TGTM *ᴮbli ‘FOUR’PLB *b/ʔ-ləy² ‘FOUR’PL *b-le² ‘FOUR’PKar *lwi-t ‘FOUR’ paymorpheme ‘come four times’Bhat 68 Boro

Bodopay◦grəmmorpheme v‘come in darkness’Bhat 68 Boro

Bodopay◦ləymorpheme ‘come!’Bhat 68 Boro

Bodopay◦naŋmorpheme v‘sure to come’Bhat 68 Boro

Bodopay◦pinmorpheme v‘come in; return’Bhat 68 Boro

Bodopay◦tarmorpheme ‘certainly to come’Bhat 68 Boro

Bodopay◦tramorpheme ‘never to come’Bhat 68 Boro

Dimasaphai v‘come’Marrison 67 Naga

Dimasaphai ‘come’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 139

Dimasaphai◦phinmorpheme v‘return (come back)’Marrison 67 Naga

Kokborokpʰay v.‘come’Tripuri 88

1.7.2Northern Naga/Konyakian2

*Northern Nagapaːy ‘come; stand; lift’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 139

*Northern Nagapaːy v.‘come / stand / lift’French 83: 471

1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang6

Changpai ‘walk’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 139

Konyakpei v‘come’Marrison 67 Naga

Konyakpei ‘come’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 139

Phompei v‘come’Marrison 67 Naga

Phompei v‘stand’Marrison 67 Naga

Phompei ‘come; stand’Matisoff 85 GSTC: 139

3.2Qiangic2

Xumibi³⁵ v.‘go / leave (future)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1579.17

Xumibi³⁵ ‘go’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 738.20

6.2Naxi6

Laze (Xiangjiao)bi˧ v.‘go’Michaud 06 NaLaze: 3518

Laze (Xiangjiao)bɤ˧ v.‘go’Michaud 06 NaLaze: 3519

Na (Yongning)bi˧ v.‘go’Michaud 06 NaLaze

Naxibɯ³³ v.‘go / leave’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1579.45

Naxi (Lijiang)bɯ³³ ‘go’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 738.28

Naxi (Yongning)le³³prefixu³³morphemebi³³ ‘return / go back’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 739.29

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #446, *pay ‘COME / GO’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/446

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

References: cf. HPTB p.209

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-446,
  title  = {{*pay 'COME / GO'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #446},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/446}
}