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STEDT #4477

*ʔum

DWELL / EXIST / LIVE / STAY
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · provisional

Intermediate reconstructions

Kuki-Chin*ʔ(u/o)m ‘DWELL / EXIST / LIVE / STAY’
Karenic*ɁɔNᴮ ‘LIVE, STAY’TL#172

Reflexes & cognates25 reflexes · 5 subgroups

1.2Kuki-Chin1

1.2.1.1Northern Chin7

Sizangom hī ‘exist’VanBik 09 PKC: 477
Thadoʔûm-I, ʔùm-II ‘exist, remain, be (locative)’VanBik 09 PKC: 477
Tiddimom¹ ‘present’VanBik 09 PKC: 477
Tiddimom¹ vi‘present’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 1305
Tiddimom¹ ‘present’Bhaskararao 94 TCV
Tiddimˊom/ˋom vi‘present, be’Henderson 65 TidC

1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin2

Ashoawn ‘dwell’VanBik 09 PKC: 477
Cho (Mindat)om ⪤ awm v‘be, to exist’VanBik 09 PKC: 477

1.2.2Central Chin3

Lai (Hakha)ʔûm-I, ʔǔm-II ‘dwell, live, exist’VanBik 09 PKC: 477
Lai (Falam)ʔúm-I, ʔùm-II ‘dwell, live’VanBik 09 PKC: 477
Lushai [Mizo]ǎwm v‘live, to dwell, to be, to exist, to remain, to abide, to stay’VanBik 09 PKC: 477

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #4477, *ʔum ‘DWELL / EXIST / LIVE / STAY’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/4477
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: PKC #477
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-4477,
  title  = {{*ʔum 'DWELL / EXIST / LIVE / STAY'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #4477},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/4477}
}