*mal

SOLITARY / FEW / LITTLE

Proto-Kuki-Chin

Reflexes & cognates4 reflexes · 3 subgroups

1.2Kuki-Chin1

*Chinmal VanBik 09 PKC: 791

1.2.1.1Northern Chin1

Paiteaprefix mal ‘solitary’VanBik 09 PKC: 791

1.2.2Central Chin3

Lai (Falam)mál ‘few, little, less’VanBik 09 PKC: 791

Lushai [Mizo]mǎl n‘single one, a drop, a grain’VanBik 09 PKC: 791

Lushai [Mizo]mal vi‘drop; grain; single one’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 2672

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #4791, *mal ‘SOLITARY / FEW / LITTLE’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/4791

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

References: PKC #791

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-4791,
  title  = {{*mal 'SOLITARY / FEW / LITTLE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #4791},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/4791}
}