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STEDT #529

*nin

NAVEL
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handlenininitialnrhymeincoverM · N

Notes

This relatively rare root appears in the NE Indian Areal Group, Himalayish, and Nungish. It is quite possible that it is related to #251 PTB *s/k-niŋ BRAIN / HEART / MIND, STC #367. The Dulong compounds look as if they could mean “belly-heart”, although the usual Dulong word for ‘heart’ is ɹɯ³¹ mɔ̆ʔ⁵⁵. Cf. also Meithei puk-ning ‘heart’ (Marrison 1967:120), where BELLY + HEART apparently means ‘heart’, not ‘navel’.

The second element of the Tani binome #6396 PTani *kri-ni NAVEL looks as if it might be related to this root.

Reflexes & cognates6 reflexes · 4 subgroups

2.3.1Eastern Kiranti1

4Nungic3

Trung [Dulong]pu⁴⁴morpheme ñin⁴² ‘navel’Matisoff 87 BP
Trung [Dulong]pu⁵⁵morphemeɲin⁵⁵ ‘navel’Matisoff 87 BP
Trung [Dulong] (Dulonghe)pu⁵⁵morpheme ɲin⁵⁵ ‘navel’Sun H 82 Dul

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #529, *nin ‘NAVEL’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/529
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-529,
  title  = {{*nin 'NAVEL'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #529},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/529}
}