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STEDT #4759

*man

COST / PRICE

Proto-Tibeto-Burman · provisional

Intermediate reconstructions

Kuki-Chin*man ‘COST / PRICE’PKC #759

Central Naga (Ao Group)*a-maːn ‘PRICE, COST, VALUE’PCN #159

Tangkhulic*man ‘PRICE’DRM#771

Notes

This root so far seems to be confined to the NE Indian areal group. There is in fact a resemblant IA root mola- of the same meaning.

Reflexes & cognates43 reflexes · 12 subgroups

1.2Kuki-Chin1

*Chinman VanBik 09 PKC: 759

1.2.1.1Northern Chin10

Sizangaprefix man ‘cost’VanBik 09 PKC: 759

Thadomàn ‘price’VanBik 09 PKC: 759

Tiddimki³morpheme man³ ‘cheap’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 611

Tiddimman³ ‘cost’VanBik 09 PKC: 759

Tiddimman³ v‘cost’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 1051

Tiddimman³ ‘cost’Bhaskararao 94 TCV

Tiddimman³ tam¹morpheme ‘expensive’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 1052

Tiddimman³ toːm³Indic loanword ‘cheap’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 1054

Tiddimˋman n‘price’Henderson 65 TidC

Tiddimˋman/ˍmat v‘cost’Henderson 65 TidC

1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin2

Ashoaprefix◦mawn ‘price’VanBik 09 PKC: 759

Cho (Mindat)man ‘price a man pay for his wife ("brideprice")’VanBik 09 PKC: 759

1.2.2Central Chin5

Lai (Hakha)mǎn ‘cost, price’VanBik 09 PKC: 759

Lai (Falam)màn ‘cost, price’VanBik 09 PKC: 759

Lushai [Mizo]man n‘price’Marrison 67 Naga

Lushai [Mizo]màn ‘cost, price, value, worth, wages’VanBik 09 PKC: 759

Lushai [Mizo]man be v.‘expensive’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 2673

1.2.3Maraic1

Lakher [Mara]mā ‘price, cost’VanBik 09 PKC: 759

1.2.4“Old Kuki”1

Sorbungʔəprefix◦máan ‘price’Mortensen 11 Sorbung: Implements.045

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)12

*Central Nagaaprefix-maːn ‘PRICE, COST, VALUE’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.159

Lotha Nagao¹prefix-man³ n.‘price’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.159

Lotha Nagaman n‘price’Marrison 67 Naga

Lotha Nagaoprefix◦man ‘price’Murry 78: 92

Lotha Nagaoprefix◦man◦la#2426 PTB *lwa(ː)y ‘EASY’PCN *m-laj ‘EASY’PTk *plaj ‘EASY / CHEAP’ ‘cheap’Marrison 67 Naga

Sangtamaprefix◦mi ‘value’Kumar 73 Sang

Sangtamaprefix◦mi aprefix◦thsak#186 PTB *tsak-t ‘HARD / SOLID’PCN *a-tʃhak ‘DIFFICULT / HARD / DEAR, COSTLY’PTk *ʃak ‘DIFFICULT / HARD’ ‘costly’Kumar 73 Sang

Yimchungrüaprefix◦mo ‘price’Kumar 73 Yim: 35

Yimchungrüaprefix◦mo ‘value’Kumar 73 Yim: 82

Yimchungrüaprefix◦mo n‘price’Marrison 67 Naga

Yimchungrüaprefix◦mo◦aprefix◦chak#186 PTB *tsak-t ‘HARD / SOLID’PCN *a-tʃhak ‘DIFFICULT / HARD / DEAR, COSTLY’PTk *ʃak ‘DIFFICULT / HARD’ ‘dear (expensive)’Marrison 67 Naga

Yimchungrüaprefix◦mo◦chak#186 PTB *tsak-t ‘HARD / SOLID’PCN *a-tʃhak ‘DIFFICULT / HARD / DEAR, COSTLY’PTk *ʃak ‘DIFFICULT / HARD’ ‘costly’Kumar 73 Yim: 80

1.3.2Angami-Pochuri Group4

Angami (Khonoma)ma n‘price’Marrison 67 Naga

Angami (Kohima)ma n‘price’Marrison 67 Naga

Ntenyiaprefix◦mün n‘price’Marrison 67 Naga

Sema [Sumi]aprefix◦me n‘price’Marrison 67 Naga

1.3.3Zeme Group2

Liangmeipamorpheme◦man n‘price’Marrison 67 Naga

Rongmei / Nruanghmeikümorpheme◦mün n‘price’Marrison 67 Naga

1.3.4Tangkhulic6

*Tangkhulicman ‘price’Mortensen 12 Tk: 771

Tangkhulaprefix◦man ‘money’Marrison 67 Naga

Tangkhulaprefix◦man n‘price’Marrison 67 Naga

Tangkhulaprefix◦man◦kapaiamorpheme ‘cheap’Marrison 67 Naga

Tangkhulmən ‘price’Bhat 69 TNV: 94

Tusomʔimorpheme-mẽ ‘price’Mortensen 12 Tk: Implements.045

1.4Meithei1

Meitheiman n‘price’Marrison 67 Naga

1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang1

Konyakmen◦ginmorpheme n‘price’Marrison 67 Naga

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #4759, *man ‘COST / PRICE’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/4759

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

References: cf. PKC #759

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-4759,
  title  = {{*man 'COST / PRICE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #4759},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/4759}
}