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STEDT #4985

*laaw ⪤ *hlaaw

ALARMED / AFRAID / NERVOUS
Proto-Kuki-Chin · provisional

Reflexes & cognates7 reflexes · 3 subgroups

1.2Kuki-Chin1

1.2.1.1Northern Chin4

Paitelau ‘alarmed’VanBik 09 PKC: 985
Sizanglau hīmorpheme ‘dread’VanBik 09 PKC: 985
Tiddimlau³ thei³morpheme ‘nervous’VanBik 09 PKC: 985
Tiddimlau³ thei³morpheme ‘nervous’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 889

1.2.2Central Chin3

Lai (Hakha)làaw-I, lǎaw-II ‘alarmed, afraid’VanBik 09 PKC: 985
Lai (Falam)láaw-I, làaw-II ‘alarmed, afraid’VanBik 09 PKC: 985
Lushai [Mizo]hlǎu-I, hlàuh-II be v.‘afraid of, to be alarmed at, to be nervous of, to be scared at, to be frightened at or of, to fear or to dread’VanBik 09 PKC: 985

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #4985, *laaw ⪤ *hlaaw ‘ALARMED / AFRAID / NERVOUS’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/4985
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: PKC #985
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-4985,
  title  = {{*laaw ⪤ *hlaaw 'ALARMED / AFRAID / NERVOUS'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #4985},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/4985}
}