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STEDT #531

*s/ʔ-yuk

DESCEND
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Intermediate reconstructions

Kuki-Chin*tshuk/ŋ ⪤ *yu-k/ŋ ‘SLOPE (downward) / DESCENT’PKC #600
Northern Naga/Konyakian*yəw ‘DESCEND’

Notes

Jingpho illustrates both the *s- and the *ʔ- prefix, which motivates our unusual PTB reconstruction with either prefix.

There is a possible allofamic relationship between this root and #2804 PTB *zak DESCEND. If this is true, it would be another example of the unusual alternation between medial *-u- and *-a- to be found in #1417 PTB *b-s(u/a)ŋ SMELL / SCENT / FRAGRANT.

Reflexes & cognates48 reflexes · 15 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

1.2Kuki-Chin1

*Chintshuk ‘SLOPE (downward) / DESCENT’VanBik 09 PKC: 600

1.2.1.1Northern Chin8

Sizangtuakmorpheme suk hīmorpheme ‘descend’VanBik 09 PKC: 600
Thadosùʔ-INV ‘downhill, downward’VanBik 09 PKC: 600
Tiddimsuk³ ‘go down (of a road)’VanBik 09 PKC: 600
Tiddimsuk³ v‘go down [of a road]’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 1628
Tiddimsuk³ ‘go down [of a road]’Bhaskararao 94 TCV
Tiddimzuː³ > zuk³ v‘rain’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 2077
Tiddimzuː³/zuk³ ‘rain’Bhaskararao 94 TCV

1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin2

Daaiju- ‘down with motion of agent’So-Hartmann 2001 Daa

1.2.2Central Chin7

Lai (Hakha)tshuk n‘downward slope, descent’VanBik 09 PKC: 600
Laizorung- ‘venitive down’Peterson 14
Bawmsuk ‘descend’Peterson 14
Lushai [Mizo]chhùk n‘downward slope, descent, a downhill path, a drop’VanBik 09 PKC: 600
Lushai [Mizo]zuk ‘descend / climb down’Weidert 87 TBTo: 113
Lushai [Mizo]zuk ‘verbal affix indicating motion downwards’Benedict 72 STC: 101n289

1.2.3Maraic1

Lakher [Mara]chhū-tlá ‘steep downwards’VanBik 09 PKC: 600

1.2.4“Old Kuki”5

K'choyuk-/yu- ‘downwards’Peterson 14
K'chozuk- ‘downwards’Peterson 14
Lamkangju ‘down’Peterson 14
Lamkangjung ‘down, homewards’Peterson 14
Taraoyung- ‘down’Peterson 14

1.7.2Northern Naga/Konyakian1

*Northern Nagayəw v.‘descend’French 83: 476

1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang5

Konyakyu ‘descend’Marrison 67 Naga
Phomyiü ‘descend’Marrison 67 Naga
Phomyɯ³¹ ‘descend / go down a little way’Burling 98 Phom

1.7.3.1Jingpho10

Jingphodī ‘do / make’Matisoff 74 TJLB: 43
Jingphodì(ʔ) ‘do; copulate illicitly (euph.)’Matisoff 87 BP
Jingphojuʔ⁵⁵ ‘descend’Liu 84
Jingphojuʔ⁵⁵ ‘descend’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 744.47
Jingphośəprefix◦yúʔ ‘let down’Benedict 72 STC: 101n289
Jingphoʔyuʔ v‘descend’Marrison 67 Naga
Jingphoʔyúʔ ‘descend’Matisoff 74 TJLB: 363

2.1.2Bodic1

2.1.3Lepcha1

Lepchayu v.‘descend’Plaisier 07 Lepcha

2.3.1Eastern Kiranti2

Limbuyuː-aʔmorpheme ‘descend / climb down’Weidert 87 TBTo: 113
Limbuyuː◦mamorpheme ‘descend / climb down’Weidert 87 TBTo: 113

2.3.4Western Kiranti3

Thulungyok- v.‘come down, to fall (of rain), to be implicated’Allen 75

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #531, *s/ʔ-yuk ‘DESCEND’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/531
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. HPTB pp.318, 482, 513
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-531,
  title  = {{*s/ʔ-yuk 'DESCEND'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #531},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/531}
}