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STEDT #538

*tsyu

OBSCURE INTERNAL CHANNEL / SINEW / NERVE / MUSCLE

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handletšuinitialtšrhymeucoverTS · V

Reflexes & cognates10 reflexes · 4 subgroups

2.1.2.1Tibetan4

Tibetan (Written)c̀ʻu-basuffix ‘sinew / tendon’Matisoff 87 BP

Tibetan (Written)c̀ʻu-rgyus#536 PTB *r-g-yuŋ ‘OBSCURE INTERNAL CHANNEL / BLOOD VESSEL / SINEW / MUSCLE’ ‘sinews; ligaments; nerves’Matisoff 87 BP

Tibetan (Written)c̀ʻu-rtsa#530 PTB *r-sa ‘VEIN / SINEW / INTERNAL CHANNEL / PULSE’PTani *fo ‘SINEW / VEIN’PKC *thaa ‘SINEW / TENDON / STRENGTH’PCN *a-saʔ ‘NERVE, VEIN / POWER, STRENGTH’ ‘sinews; veins’Matisoff 87 BP

Tibetan (Written)nyamorpheme-c̀ʻu ‘tendon; sinew’Matisoff 87 BP

2.1.4Tamangish3

Gurung (Ghachok)chyuq ‘ligament’Matisoff 87 BP

Gurung (Ghachok)cʰyuq ‘ligament’Glover 72 GuVo: 2.A.7

Tamang (Sahu)'chyu ‘nerve’Matisoff 87 BP

3.3rGyalrongic1

Ergong (Danba)nprefix◦tʰu ‘muscle’Sun H 91 ErDQ: 8.8

6.2Naxi2

Naxi (Eastern)dʐv³³morphemetsɯ⁵⁵ ‘sinew’He 85

Naxi (Yongning)dʐv³³morphemetsɿ⁵⁵ ‘sinew’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 267.29

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #538, *tsyu ‘OBSCURE INTERNAL CHANNEL / SINEW / NERVE / MUSCLE’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/538

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-538,
  title  = {{*tsyu 'OBSCURE INTERNAL CHANNEL / SINEW / NERVE / MUSCLE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #538},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/538}
}