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STEDT #505

*mit

THROAT

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

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Notes

This root has so far been discovered mostly in Tibetan dialects, as well as in Qiangic and in an isolated form in Tani.

Reflexes & cognates44 reflexes · 5 subgroups

1.1.1.2Eastern Tani1

Damumit-duŋ#822 PTB *dwa(ː)ŋ ‘HOLE / ORIFICE / CAVE / PIT / WELL (FOR WATER)’ ‘throat’Sun J 93 Tani

2.1.2Bodic1

Baimaȵi¹³ uɑ⁵³morpheme ‘windpipe / trachea’Sun H 91 Baim: 4.2.1

2.1.2.1Tibetan20

Tibetan (Batang)mi⁵³ v.‘swallow’Dai 89 Bata: 4.2.3

Tibetan (Batang)mi⁵⁵ pa⁵³suffix ‘throat / gullet / pharynx’Dai 89 Bata: 4.2

Tibetan (Batang)miʔ⁵³ v.‘swallow’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1692.03

Tibetan (Khams:Dege)miʔ⁵³tɑŋ⁵³morpheme v.t.‘swallow’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 540.3

Tibetan (Khams:Dege)ȵi⁵⁵pa⁵³suffix ‘throat’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 249.3

Tibetan (Lhasa)mik¹³chuː⁵⁵morpheme taŋ⁵⁵morpheme v.‘swallow’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1692.02

Tibetan (Lhasa)mik¹³cur⁵⁵morpheme-taŋ⁵⁵morpheme v.t.‘swallow’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 540.2

Tibetan (Lhasa)mik¹³pa⁵³suffix ‘throat’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 249.2

Tibetan (Lhasa)mik¹³pə⁵⁵suffix n‘throat’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0141.02

Tibetan (Lhasa)mik⁵³pa⁵⁵morpheme-taŋ⁵⁵morpheme v.i.‘swallow’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 541.2

Spitimit◦pasuffix ‘adam's apple / larynx’Bodh 91: 4.1.4

Spitimit◦pasuffix ‘windpipe / trachea’Bodh 91: 4.2.1

Spitimi◦cesuffix v‘swallow’Bodh 91: 4.2.3

Tibetan (Written)khyurmorpheme-mid-gtoŋmorpheme-bamorpheme ‘swallow, gulp down’Zhang Liansheng 88: 100

Tibetan (Written)mid v‘swallow’Marrison 67 Naga

Tibetan (Written)mid v.‘swallow’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1692.01

Tibetan (Written)mid khjurmorpheme btaŋmorpheme v.t.‘swallow’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 540.1

Tibetan (Written)mid khjurmorpheme btaŋmorpheme v.i.‘swallow’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 541.1

Tibetan (Written)mid pasuffix ‘throat’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 249.1

Tibetan (Written)mid-pasuffix ‘throat’Zhang Liansheng 88: 26

3.2Qiangic20

Ersumi⁵⁵ ‘swallow’Sun H 91 ErsQ

Ersumi⁵⁵ v.t.‘swallow’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 540.18

Ersumi⁵⁵ v.i.‘swallow’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 541.18

Ersumi⁵⁵ hku⁵⁵#389 PTB *s/r-gwa-n ‘NECK / NAPE’ ‘throat’Sun H 91 ErsQ

Ersumi⁵⁵hku⁵⁵#389 PTB *s/r-gwa-n ‘NECK / NAPE’ ‘throat’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 249.18

Guiqiongmi³³ʐu⁵⁵morphemeku³³morpheme v.i.‘swallow’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 541.17

Guiqiongmi³⁵nɔ̃⁵⁵morpheme v.‘swallow’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1692.16

Guiqiongmi⁵⁵ nɔ⁵³morpheme ‘swallow’Sun H 91 GuiQ

Guiqiongmi⁵⁵nɔ⁵³morpheme v.t.‘swallow’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 540.17

Lyuzumi³³ku⁵³#389 PTB *s/r-gwa-n ‘NECK / NAPE’ n‘throat’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0141.18

Pumi (Jiulong)mũ³⁵phʐũ⁵⁵morpheme n‘throat’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0141.10

Pumi (Jiulong)mũ³⁵phʐũ⁵⁵morphemeʐɑ³⁵morphemeqɑ⁵⁵morpheme n‘Adam's apple’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0142.10

Pumi (Lanping)mu⁵⁵po¹³morpheme n‘throat’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0141.09

Pumi (Qinghua)mu⁵⁵ po¹³morpheme ‘throat’Lu 83 Pumi

Pumi (Qinghua)mu⁵⁵po¹³morpheme ‘throat’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 249.11

Qiang (Yadu)mu◦wumorpheme ‘throat’Dai 89 Qian: 175

Xumimiæ⁵⁵ʔũ⁵⁵morpheme v.‘swallow’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1692.17

Xumimiɛ⁵⁵ ũ⁵⁵morpheme ‘swallow’Sun H 91 ShiQ

Xumimiɛ⁵⁵ũ⁵⁵morpheme v.t.‘swallow’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 540.20

Zhaba (Daofu County)a³³prefix mi⁵⁵ v.‘swallow’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1692.14

3.3rGyalrongic2

Ergong (Northern)mȵet³³ pa⁵³suffix ‘throat / gullet / pharynx’Sun H 91 ErNQ: 4.2

Ergong (Northern)mȵə³³ tak⁵³morpheme ‘windpipe / trachea’Sun H 91 ErNQ: 4.2.1

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #505, *mit ‘THROAT’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/505

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-505,
  title  = {{*mit 'THROAT'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #505},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/505}
}