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STEDT #4819

*s-nwat

MOP / RUB / WIPE
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Intermediate reconstructions

Tani*not² ‘RUB (skin)’JS-HCST: 211
Kuki-Chin*noot ⪤ *hnoot ‘MOP / RUB / WIPE’

Notes

There are three similar roots in this semantic area, all possibly related. Cf. #4903 PTB *hnuay RUB / CRUMPLE / TWIST and #2512 PTB *s-nu(l/r) RUB AGAINST / GRAZE / TOUCH.

There is a very similar Tai root hnuat (cf. Siamese nùat ‘rub, massage’), which looks as if it has some sort of contact relationship with the present root.

Reflexes & cognates22 reflexes · 9 subgroups

1.1.1Tani1

*Taninot² v‘rub (skin)’Sun J 93 HCST: 332

1.1.1.1Western Tani6

Apataninu-kʰrjamorpheme ‘wipe’Sun J 93 Tani
Bengninu v‘rub (skin)’Sun J 93 HCST
Bengninuː-ñakmorpheme ‘rub (skin)’Sun J 93 Tani
Bokarnuː v‘rub (skin)’Sun J 93 HCST
Bokarnuː v‘rub (to soften skin)’Sun J 93 Tani
Bokar Lhobanuː ‘rub (to soften animal skin)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 643.51

1.1.1.2Eastern Tani1

1.2Kuki-Chin1

1.2.1.1Northern Chin5

Sizangnawt hīmorpheme ‘wipe’VanBik 09 PKC: 819
Thadonôot-I, nòot-II ‘mop, rub’VanBik 09 PKC: 819
Tiddimnoːt¹ ‘mop, rub’VanBik 09 PKC: 819
Tiddimnoːt¹ v‘rub; mop’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 1243
Tiddimnoːt¹ ‘rub, mop’Bhaskararao 94 TCV

1.2.2Central Chin6

Lai (Falam)hnôot-I, hnòot-II ‘mop, rub, wipe’VanBik 09 PKC: 819
Lai (Hakha)hnoot-I, hnoʔ-II ‘mop, rub, wipe’VanBik 09 PKC: 819
Lushai [Mizo]nâwt-I, nàwh-II v‘rub, to rub against’VanBik 09 PKC: 819

1.7.3.1Jingpho1

Jingphonut³¹ ‘rub (to soften animal skin)’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 643.47

2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang2

Chepangnut- vt.‘rub off between two hands (fur of peaches, etc.)’Caughley 00 Chepang
Chepangnyut- vt.‘rub surfaces together, rub with fingers (to remove husk, fur of peach, etc.)’Caughley 00 Chepang

7Karenic1

Pa-Onòt ‘rub, massage’Solnit 89 PaO

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #4819, *s-nwat ‘MOP / RUB / WIPE’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/4819
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. PKC #819
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-4819,
  title  = {{*s-nwat 'MOP / RUB / WIPE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #4819},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/4819}
}