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STEDT #4661

*saaw

LONG
Proto-Kuki-Chin

Reflexes & cognates17 reflexes · 5 subgroups

1.2Kuki-Chin1

1.2.1.1Northern Chin6

Sizangaprefix sau ‘long’VanBik 09 PKC: 661
Thadosâaw-I, sàaw-II ‘long’VanBik 09 PKC: 661
Tiddimsau¹ ‘long (not short); long (spatially)’VanBik 09 PKC: 661
Tiddimsaːu¹ vi‘long [spatially]’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 1539
Tiddimsaːu¹ ‘long [spatially]’Bhaskararao 94 TCV
Tiddimˊsaːu/ˋsaːu v‘long’Henderson 65 TidC

1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin5

Ashoʻsauhˊˊ be v.‘long’VanBik 09 PKC: 661
Khumisʰaᵘʔ ‘long’So-Hartmann 88 Chin: 227

1.2.2Central Chin3

Lai (Hakha)sàaw-I, sǎaw-II ‘long’VanBik 09 PKC: 661
Lai (Falam)sáaw-INV ‘long (length)’VanBik 09 PKC: 661
Lushai [Mizo]sǎu be v.‘long (as stride or step)’VanBik 09 PKC: 661

1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang3

Phomʃaw³¹ ‘high’Burling 98 Phom
Phomʃaw³¹ ‘tall (objects)’Burling 98 Phom
Phomʃaw³¹lu³³morpheme ‘tall (people) (?+'long')’Burling 98 Phom

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #4661, *saaw ‘LONG’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/4661
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: PKC #661
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-4661,
  title  = {{*saaw 'LONG'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #4661},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/4661}
}