STEDT #528
*bryam ⪤ *brim
NAVEL / UMBILICAL CORD
Reconstruction analysis
handlebryaminitialbryrhymeam⪤imcoverP · N
Notes
This etymon is mostly confined to Himalayish, though there is an excellent Moyon cognate. The initial labial stop may be a reduction of one of several etyma for ‘belly’ that begin with a labial (probably #164 PTB *d-puːk BELLY / VITALS / HOLLOW OBJECT / CAVE), as illustrated by the disyllabic Moyon doublet and the Lepcha form, so that this root should perhaps be reconstructed *b-ryam ⪤ *b-rim.
This etymon seems to be quite independent from #193 PTB *bliŋ STRING / THREAD / CORD.
Reflexes & cognates14 reflexes · 7 subgroups
1.2.4“Old Kuki”1
2.1.1Western Himalayish1
Bunanpor◦tsi#519 PTB *s-tay ‘NAVEL / ABDOMEN / CENTER / SELF’MesorootsPKar *Ɂdeᴬ ‘NAVEL, UMBILICAL CORD’Allofams40 #518 PTB *m/s-la(ː)y ⪤ *s-tay ‘NAVEL’40a #517 PTB *m/s-la(ː)y ‘NAVEL / CENTER / SELF’40b #519 PTB *s-tay ‘NAVEL / ABDOMEN / CENTER / SELF’ ‘navel’Sharma, S.R. 91 Bu: 5.7.1
2.1.3Lepcha1
Lepchabǎk#164 PTB *d-puːk ‘BELLY / VITALS / HOLLOW OBJECT / CAVE’MesorootsPTani *puk ‘HEART’PTani *pɯk ‘CAVE’PCN *puk ‘STOMACH, BELLY’PTk *buk ‘BELLY / STOMACH’Allofams1 #6723 PTB *d-(p/b)u-k ‘BELLY / STOMACH / CAVE’1a #2104 PTB *pʷik ‘BELLY / STOMACH’1b #2106 PTB *wuk ‘BELLY / STOMACH’1c #164 PTB *d-puːk ‘BELLY / VITALS / HOLLOW OBJECT / CAVE’1d #2103 PTB *pʷu ‘BELLY / STOMACH / INTESTINE / KIDNEY’1e #2102 PTB *wu ‘BELLY / STOMACH / INTESTINE / KIDNEY’1g #2111 PTB *pwa(ŋ/n) ‘BELLY / CENTER’-lim ‘navel’Matisoff 87 BP
2.1.4Tamangish2
2.3.2Southern Kiranti2
2.3.3Central Kiranti3
2.3.4Western Kiranti4
Cite this entry
STEDT etymon #528,
*bryam ⪤ *brim ‘NAVEL / UMBILICAL CORD’.Stable link:
https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/528Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-528,
title = {{*bryam ⪤ *brim 'NAVEL / UMBILICAL CORD'}},
author = {STEDT},
year = {2017},
note = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #528},
url = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/528}
}