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STEDT #447

*s-grum

CONTRACTED / STUNTED / DWARFISH

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Intermediate reconstructions

Kuki-Chin*k(r)um ‘DECREASE / DESCEND / SHRINK’PKC #1316

Notes

The Lai and Lahu forms reflect *-r-, but WB has -y-; both WB and Lahu reflect PLB Tone *3.

Reflexes & cognates21 reflexes · 9 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmans-grum ‘contracted / stunted / dwarfish’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 591

1.2Kuki-Chin1

*Chin(k)(r)um ‘DECREASE / DESCEND / SHRINK’VanBik 09 PKC: 1316

1.2.1.1Northern Chin4

Thadokûm-I, kùm-II ‘descend’VanBik 09 PKC: 1316

Tiddimkum¹ ‘descend’VanBik 09 PKC: 1316

Tiddimkum¹ v‘descend’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 691

Tiddimkum¹ ‘descend’Bhaskararao 94 TCV

1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin2

Ashokawn ‘descend, go down’VanBik 09 PKC: 1316

Khumiaprefix◦vung ‘climb down (from a tree), descend, go down’VanBik 09 PKC: 1316

1.2.2Central Chin5

Lai (Hakha)trum ‘stunted’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 272

Lai (Hakha)trûm-I, trǔm-II ‘decrease, shrink, descend’VanBik 09 PKC: 1316

Lai (Falam)ṭúm-I, ṭùm-II ‘decrease, shrink, descend’VanBik 09 PKC: 1316

Lushai [Mizo]tum v‘jump’Marrison 67 Naga

Lushai [Mizo]ṭǔm thlà v‘jump down’VanBik 09 PKC: 1316

1.2.3Maraic1

Lakher [Mara]chó v‘descend, to come down’VanBik 09 PKC: 1316

1.7.3.1Jingpho1

Jingphokrúm ‘trim, lop, prune’Matisoff 74 TJLB: 265

6.1.1Burmish5

Burmese (Written)khyuṁʼ be v.‘contracted’Benedict 76 WBur

Burmese (Written)krum câmorpheme v.‘shrink in size’VanBik 09 PKC: 1316

Burmese (Written)kuṁʼ-kuṁʼ ‘contracted’Benedict 76 WBur

Burmese (Written)kyumʼ be v.‘contracted, drawn together, shrunk’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 272

Burmese (Written)kyuṁʼ be v.‘contracted’Benedict 76 WBur

6.1.2.2Central Loloish3

Lahu (Black)chɔmorpheme-kɛ-nɛmorpheme ‘dwarf’Matisoff 74 TJLB: 265

Lahu (Black)chɨmorpheme-kɛ-nɛmorpheme ‘barking deer (a small species)’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 272

Lahu (Black)qhɔ#3581 PTB *s-gaŋ ‘MOUNTAIN / RIDGE / HILL’-kɛ-nɛmorpheme ‘barren, treeless mountain’Matisoff 74 TJLB: 265

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #447, *s-grum ‘CONTRACTED / STUNTED / DWARFISH’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/447

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

References: cf. HPTB p.272

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-447,
  title  = {{*s-grum 'CONTRACTED / STUNTED / DWARFISH'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #447},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/447}
}