STEDT #503
*k/s-mut
BLOW (with mouth)
Reconstruction analysis
handlek/s-muprefixk/sinitialmrhymeutcoverM · T
Intermediate reconstructions
Loloish*s-mutᴴ ‘BLOW’
Connections
HPTB*s-mut ‘blow’pp. 99, 364
See also#2470
Notes
This root, like many others, displays variation between medial *-u- and *-i-.
Jingpho and Mikir have lenited the initial to w-, while Karenic has dropped it entirely.
Reflexes & cognates324 reflexes · 42 subgroups
0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)5
1.1.1Tani1
1.1.1.1Western Tani15
1.1.1.2Eastern Tani4
1.1.2Deng4
1.2Kuki-Chin1
1.2.1.1Northern Chin5
1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin12
Cho (Mindat)ngmorpheme-mut-Ix, ngmorpheme-muh-IIx be v.‘blowing (wind, breath), to breathe on’VanBik 09 PKC: 753
1.2.2Central Chin2
1.2.3Maraic6
1.2.4“Old Kuki”1
1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)1
1.3.2Angami-Pochuri Group3
1.3.3Zeme Group2
1.4Meithei1
1.5Mikir [Karbi]3
1.7.2Northern Naga/Konyakian1
1.7.2.1Tangsa-Nocte3
1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang7
1.7.3.1Jingpho11
1.7.3.2Asakian3
2.1.2Bodic6
2.1.3Lepcha2
2.3.1Eastern Kiranti3
2.3.2Southern Kiranti2
2.3.4Western Kiranti2
2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang4
3.1Tangut2
3.2Qiangic17
3.3rGyalrongic5
3.3.1rGyalrong10
4Nungic7
5Tujia8
6.1Lolo-Burmese2
6.1.1Burmish44
Achang (Lianghe)lɑi⁵⁵#2412 PTB *g-ləy ‘WIND (n.)’PTani *rji ‘WIND (n.)’PKC *khlii ‘AIR / WIND’PTk *ʃi ‘WIND (n.)’PNN *gleːy ‘WIND’PLB *s/ʔ-ləy¹ ‘WIND’PKar *lèi' ‘WIND’mɛt³¹ ‘blow (of wind)’Dai 85 AcJZ
6.1.2Loloish3
6.1.2.1Northern Loloish48
6.1.2.2Central Loloish33
6.1.2.3Southern Loloish11
6.1.2.4Southeastern Loloish7
6.2Naxi8
Laze (Xiangjiao)mi˧˥ v.‘blow’[Source note] e.g. to blow the fire; same word for “blowing a trumpet”Michaud 06 NaLaze: 2524
7Karenic27
Cite this entry
STEDT etymon #503,
*k/s-mut ‘BLOW (with mouth)’.Stable link:
https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/503Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. STC p.75; TSR #143; HPTB
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-503,
title = {{*k/s-mut 'BLOW (with mouth)'}},
author = {STEDT},
year = {2017},
note = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #503},
url = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/503}
}