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STEDT #5379

*(d/t)aŋ

TENSE / TIGHT
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Notes

The Chinese comparandum is due to Coblin (1986:150), where it is glossed as ‘give tension to a bow’.

Chinese comparandum

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Reflexes & cognates20 reflexes · 7 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmandaŋ ⪤ taŋ ‘tense / tight’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 267

2.1.2.1Tibetan7

Tibetan (Alike)tam mosuffix ‘tense / tight / taut’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1040.05
Tibetan (Batang)tɑ̃¹³mbᴜ⁵³suffix ‘tense / tight / taut’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1040.03
Tibetan (Khams:Dege)tɑŋ¹³bo⁵³suffix ‘tight’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 881.3
Tibetan (Lhasa)tham¹³po⁵⁵suffix ‘tense / tight / taut’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1040.02
Tibetan (Lhasa)tham¹⁵po⁵³suffix ‘tight’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 881.2
Tibetan (Written)thaṅ◦posuffix ‘tight’Marrison 67 Naga

6.1.1Burmish1

Burmese (Written)tâŋ ‘tighten, become tense, stiff’Benedict 76 WBur

9.0.1Old Chinese2

Chinese (Old)gaŋ {[g]aŋ} ‘strong’BaxterSagart 2011: 2209

9.0.2Middle Chinese2

9.0.3Modern Chinese2

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5379, *(d/t)aŋ ‘TENSE / TIGHT’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5379
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. HPTB p. 267
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-5379,
  title  = {{*(d/t)aŋ 'TENSE / TIGHT'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5379},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5379}
}