STEDT #5364

*kwak

BODY / TRUNK

Notes

The basic meaning of this etymon seems to be “major segment of the body”. The compounds glossed ‘chest’ evidently derive their specific meaning from the first syllable (see #288 PTB *b/g-raŋ CHEST).

Reflexes & cognates40 reflexes · 5 subgroups

2.1.2Bodic4

Tsangla (Motuo)kʰok⁵⁵ tøʔ⁵⁵#21 PTB *s-twat ‘BODY (UPPER)’ ‘upper body’Zhang Jichuan 86

Tsangla (Motuo)kʰoŋ⁵⁵ meʔ⁵⁵morpheme ‘lower body’Zhang Jichuan 86

Motuo Menbakhok meʔmorpheme n‘lower half of the body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0736.07

Motuo Menbakhok tøʔ#21 PTB *s-twat ‘BODY (UPPER)’ n‘upper half of the body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0735.07

2.1.2.1Tibetan16

Tibetan (Batang)kho⁵⁵m̥ɛʔ⁵³morpheme n‘lower half of the body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0736.03

Tibetan (Batang)kho⁵⁵tøʔ⁵³#21 PTB *s-twat ‘BODY (UPPER)’ n‘upper half of the body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0735.03

Tibetan (Lhasa)phaŋ¹³#288 PTB *b/g-raŋ ‘CHEST’kho⁵² n‘chest’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0093.02

Tibetan (Lhasa)phaŋ¹³#288 PTB *b/g-raŋ ‘CHEST’kho⁵² tir¹³morpheme v.‘throw out (one's chest)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1684.02

Tibetan (Lhasa)phaŋ¹⁵#288 PTB *b/g-raŋ ‘CHEST’koʔ⁵³ ‘chest’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 257.2

Sherpachamorpheme◦kok ‘chest’Matisoff 87 BP

Spitiṭhaŋ#288 PTB *b/g-raŋ ‘CHEST’◦gok ‘chest’Bodh 91: 5.1

Tibetan (Written)(braŋ#288 PTB *b/g-raŋ ‘CHEST’ khog) ldirmorpheme v.‘throw out (one's chest)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1684.01

Tibetan (Written)braŋ#288 PTB *b/g-raŋ ‘CHEST’ khog n‘chest’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0093.01

Tibetan (Written)byaṅ#399 PTB *(p/b)laŋ ‘HIPS / BUTTOCKS’-k'og ‘inside of body, rump "opposed to yan-lag 'limbs'"’Matisoff 87 BP: 179

Tibetan (Written)khog smadmorpheme n‘lower half of the body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0736.01

Tibetan (Written)khog stod#21 PTB *s-twat ‘BODY (UPPER)’ n‘upper half of the body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0735.01

Tibetan (Written)khog-pasuffix ‘belly, abdomen’Zhang Liansheng 88: 34

Tibetan (Written)khog-pasuffix, khog-masuffix n‘trunk of body’Jäschke 1881: 43

Tibetan (Xiahe)khoχ hto#21 PTB *s-twat ‘BODY (UPPER)’ n‘upper half of the body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0735.04

Tibetan (Xiahe)khoχ marmorpheme n‘lower half of the body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0736.04

2.4Kham-Magar-Chepang7

Chepangkāʔ ‘body’Matisoff 87 BP

Chepangkaʔ ‘body’Caughley 72 CVoc: 2.A.1

Chepangkaʔ- nb.‘body (esp the back, but only as a compound in chant words)’Caughley 00 Chepang

Chepangkaʔ.gəmmorpheme.ʔimorpheme n.‘location of spirit in the body (ch.)’Caughley 00 Chepang

Chepangkaʔ.rəyʔmorpheme n.‘odour (sp.), of body; menses’Caughley 00 Chepang

Chepangkaʔ.rəyʔmorpheme n.‘body odour’Caughley 00 Chepang

Chepangkaʔ.tammorpheme.bimorpheme n.‘location of spirit in the body (ch.)’Caughley 00 Chepang

3.2Qiangic11

Guiqiongkhɔ⁵⁵mɛ⁵⁵morpheme n‘lower half of the body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0736.16

Guiqiongkhɔ⁵⁵ti⁵⁵#21 PTB *s-twat ‘BODY (UPPER)’ n‘upper half of the body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0735.16

Muyakho⁵⁵pɑ⁵³suffix n‘body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0073.15

Muyakhø⁵⁵me⁵³morpheme n‘lower half of the body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0736.15

Muyakhø⁵⁵tø⁵³#21 PTB *s-twat ‘BODY (UPPER)’ n‘upper half of the body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0735.15

Muya [Minyak]qho⁵⁵pa⁵³suffix ‘body’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 231.15

Muya [Minyak]qho⁵⁵pa⁵³suffixʁɒ³⁵#2154 PTB *b(w)ay ‘LEFT (HAND)’PTk *joj ‘LEFT SIDE’PL *b-way² ‘LEFT’ʐɐ³⁵morpheme ‘side (left)’Sun H 91 MuyQ: 1.3

Muya [Minyak]qʰo⁵⁵pa⁵³suffix ‘body’Sun H 91 MuyQ: 1.1

Muya [Minyak]qʰo⁵⁵pa⁵³suffixmi⁵⁵morphemeʐɐ³⁵morpheme ‘side (right)’Sun H 91 MuyQ: 1.2

Queyu (Xinlong)kuɛ⁵⁵ʂmɛ⁵⁵morpheme n‘lower half of the body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0736.13

Queyu (Xinlong)kuɛ⁵⁵ʂtɛ⁵⁵#21 PTB *s-twat ‘BODY (UPPER)’ n‘upper half of the body’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0735.13

3.3.1rGyalrong2

Caodengtəprefix-qʰo-smɐtmorpheme ‘lower body’Sun J 97 Cao

Caodengtəprefix-qʰo-stot#21 PTB *s-twat ‘BODY (UPPER)’ ‘upper body’Sun J 97 Cao

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5364, *kwak ‘BODY / TRUNK’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5364

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-5364,
  title  = {{*kwak 'BODY / TRUNK'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5364},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5364}
}