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*m-p(r)(w)aŋ

MOUTH
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · exemplary

Reconstruction analysis

handleprwinitialp(r)(wrhymeaŋcoverP · N

Intermediate reconstructions

Tani*fi-buŋ ‘BEAK’JS-HCST: 92
Central Naga (Ao Group)*paŋ ‘MOUTH’PCN #194

Notes

Two forms with final velar stop (Bokar Lhoba gum pɯk and Tsangla Motuo ʔa pak taŋ ‘mouth’) seem at first glance to be related to this root. However, Bokar nap pang and Tsangla no waŋ ‘mouth’ suggest that a separate root is involved.

The resemblance of these stop-finalled forms to Thai (cf. Siamese pàak ‘mouth’) seems quite fortuitous.

So far the nasal prefix has only been found in Qiangic.

Reflexes & cognates96 reflexes · 17 subgroups

1.1.1Tani1

“The first morpheme is ‘tooth’; the second morpheme can be identified with the classifier for long slender objects, PT *buŋ...” Sun 1993a:92.

*Tanifi-buŋ ‘beak’Sun J 93 HCST: 18

1.1.2Deng1

Idulãmmorpheme◦bõ ‘beak / bill’Pulu 78

1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin2

Khumi (Ahraing)lə̆morpheme◦bɛãᴜ⁵ ‘mouth, lips’Luce 85: O.16
Womatumrɔ̆ŋ⁴ ‘mouth, lips’Luce 85: O.16

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)18

Ao (Chungli)teprefix◦bang ‘mouth’Marrison 67 Naga
Ao (Chungli)teprefix◦bang◦mechimorpheme ‘lip’Marrison 67 Naga
Ao (Chungli)tə²prefix-paŋ² n.‘mouth’Bruhn 14 PCN: II.007
Ao (Mongsen: Longchang)tüprefix◦bang◦metsümorpheme ‘lip’Marrison 67 Naga
Ao (Mongsen: Longchang)tüprefix◦pang ‘mouth’Marrison 67 Naga
Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)[tə]prefix-paŋ n.‘mouth, beak’Coupe 07 Ao
Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)[tə]prefix-thəmmorpheme-paŋ ‘edge ('end' + 'mouth')’Coupe 07 Ao
Lotha Nagao¹prefix-pəŋ¹ n.‘mouth’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.194
Lotha Nagaoprefix◦bung ‘mouth’Nienu 90 LotQ: 3.7
Lotha Nagaoprefix◦pang ‘mouth’Marrison 67 Naga
Lotha Nagaoprefix◦püng ‘mouth’Murry 78: 76
Yacham-Tengsataprefix◦bang ‘mouth’Marrison 67 Naga

1.3.2Angami-Pochuri Group3

Meluriaprefix◦po ‘mouth’Marrison 67 Naga
Ntenyiaprefix◦pan ‘mouth’Marrison 67 Naga
Ntenyiaprefix◦pang ‘mouth’Marrison 67 Naga

1.3.3Zeme Group1

1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang5

Changsammorpheme puŋ ‘point, rim, mouth’French 83: 524
Changsammorpheme puŋ kop#783 PTB *kwap ‘SKIN / LIP / SCALES (fish) / SHELL’MesorootsPCN *kəp ‘SKIN / COVER (n.)’Allofams7a #783 PTB *kwap ‘SKIN / LIP / SCALES (fish) / SHELL’7b #5516 PTB *krap ‘SHELL / SHIELD’ ‘lip’French 83: 515
Changsammorpheme◦pung ‘mouth’Marrison 67 Naga
Changsammorpheme◦pung◦kop#783 PTB *kwap ‘SKIN / LIP / SCALES (fish) / SHELL’MesorootsPCN *kəp ‘SKIN / COVER (n.)’Allofams7a #783 PTB *kwap ‘SKIN / LIP / SCALES (fish) / SHELL’7b #5516 PTB *krap ‘SHELL / SHIELD’ ‘lip’Marrison 67 Naga
Changsʌ̀mˇmorpheme-bùŋ ‘mouth’Weidert 87 TBTo: 736

2.1.2Bodic12

2.1.3Lepcha3

Lepchaaprefix-bon̊ ‘beak / bill’Matisoff 87 BP
Lepchaaprefix-bon̊ ‘mouth’Matisoff 87 BP
Lepchabon̊ ‘beak / bill’Matisoff 87 BP

3.2Qiangic9

Guiqiongũ⁵⁵morpheme pa⁵³ ‘mouth’Sun H 91 GuiQ

7Karenic12

Kayan (Pekon)kamorpheme◦plō N‘mouth’Manson 10 Kayan
Kayan (Pekon)kamorpheme◦plō◦pʰèmorpheme N‘lips [lit. mouth-skin]’Manson 10 Kayan
Pa-Opèʔmorpheme phrɔ̂ŋ ‘close mouth’Solnit 89 PaO
Pa-Ophrɔ̂ŋ ‘mouth’Solnit 89 PaO
Pa-Ophrɔ̂ŋ ‘mouth’Matisoff 87 BP
Pa-Ophrɔ̂ŋ ‘mouth’Jones 61: 668

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #476, *m-p(r)(w)aŋ ‘MOUTH’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/476
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-476,
  title  = {{*m-p(r)(w)aŋ 'MOUTH'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #476},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/476}
}