*s-mun

DARK

Proto-Tibeto-Burman · provisional

Reconstruction analysis

prefixsinitialmrhymeun

Notes

This root seems to be allofamically related to #2465 PTB *muːŋ ⪤ *r/s-muːk FOGGY / DARK / SULLEN / MENACING / THUNDER.

Chinese comparandum

悶 OC *mwən, GSR #441d ‘stuffy (of weather, room); bored; unconsciously’; Schuessler 2007:379 *mə̂n; B & S 2011: (*mˁən); Mand. mēn.
悶 OC *mwən, GSR #441d ‘sad; dull, stupid’; Schuessler 2007:379 *mə̂ns; B & S 2011: (*mˁən-s); Mand. mèn.

𣧟/殙 OC *miən ~ mwən ~ χmwən, GSR #457f ‘blinded; confused; desolate, distracted’; Schuessler 2007:379 *hmə̂n; Mand. hūn.
昬昏 OC *χmwən, GSR #457j-l ‘dusk, dark’; Schuessler 2007:379 *hmə̂n; B & S 2011: *m̥ˁun {m̥ˁu[n]}; Mand. hūn.

Reflexes & cognates21 reflexes · 6 subgroups

0Sino-Tibetan (previously published reconstructions)2

*Sino-Tibetanmun/rmunmorpheme ‘dark’Coblin 86: 60

*Sino-Tibetanmun~s-mun ‘dusk / evening / darkness / blinded’Chou 72: 457j-l

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmans-mun ‘dark’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 603

2.1.2.1Tibetan11

Tibetan (Batang)mỹ¹³ ruʔ²³¹morpheme v.‘dark, get’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1672.03

Tibetan (Jirel)mun◦dākmorpheme adj‘dark’Hale 73 CSD: 12b.34

Tibetan (Lhasa)mun¹³rup¹³²morpheme v.‘dark, get’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1672.02

Tibetan (Lhasa)mỹ¹³na⁵²morpheme ‘dark’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1013.02

Tibetan (Written)dmun-pamorpheme ‘darkened’Benedict 72 STC: 155n419

Tibetan (Written)dmun-pɑmorpheme ‘darkened’Chou 72: 457j-l

Tibetan (Written)mun nag#2483 PTB *s-nak ‘BLACK’PKC *nak ‘BLACK’PCN *a-njak ‘BLACK’PNN *C̥-ɲak ‘BLACK’PLB *s-nakᴴ ‘BLACK’PL *C-nakᴴ ‘BLACK’ ‘dark’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1013.01

Tibetan (Written)mun rubmorpheme v.‘dark, get’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1672.01

Tibetan (Written)mun-pasuffix ‘dark’Benedict 72 STC: 155n419

Tibetan (Written)mun-pɑsuffix ‘dark’Chou 72: 457j-l

Tibetan (Written)mun◦pasuffix ‘dark’Marrison 67 Naga

2.1.4Tamangish3

Manang (Prakaa)²mun◦naːmorpheme ‘dark’Hoshi 84: 0475

Tamang (Sahu)mun◦tungmorpheme adj‘dark’Hale 73 CSD: 12b.34

Tamang (Sahu)mun◦tuŋmorpheme adj.‘dark’Taylor 72 TmVo: 12.B.34

6.1.1Burmish1

Burmese (Written)hmun ‘dim, dusky, blurred’Benedict 76 WBur

9.0.1Old Chinese6

Chinese (Old/Mid)mwən/muən ‘sad / dull / stupid’Chou 72: 441d

Chinese (Old/Mid)mwən/muən ‘blinded, confused, desolate, distracted’Karlgren 57 GSR: 457f

Chinese (Old/Mid)mwən~xmwən/muən~xuən ‘blinded / confused’Chou 72: 457f

Chinese (Old/Mid)xmwən/xuən ‘dusk / evening / darkness / blinded’Chou 72: 457j-l

Chinese (Old/Mid)χmwən/χuən ‘blinded, confused, desolate, distracted’Karlgren 57 GSR: 457f

Chinese (Old/Mid)χmwən/χuən ‘dusk / evening / darkness; benighted / blinded / dark (mentally)’Karlgren 57 GSR: 457j-l

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #522, *s-mun ‘DARK’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/522

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

References: cf. HPTB pp.309, 310

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-522,
  title  = {{*s-mun 'DARK'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #522},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/522}
}