m(y/w)an ⪤ min

FLESH / MEAT / ANIMAL

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Reconstruction analysis

handlemyaninitialmyrhymean~min⪤mcoverM · N

Connections

HPTB*mwan ⪤ *mwat ‘cut / slice / castrate’p. 518

Notes

Padam-Mising a-muir ⪤ a-muil ‘body’ looks like a plausible reflex of this root, but for the moment we hesitate to reconstruct a final liquid on the testimony of this single language.

Reflexes & cognates14 reflexes · 5 subgroups

Tsangla (Motuo)moŋ¹³ naŋ¹³morpheme ‘animal skin’Zhang Jichuan 86

Tsangla (Motuo)moŋ◦naŋmorpheme ‘skin’Sun H 80 MLD

Tsangla (Motuo)moŋ◦naŋmorpheme ‘skin’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 266.7

Tsangla (Tilang)moŋ-naŋmorpheme ‘skin’Zhang Jichuan 86

Tshona (Mama)men⁵³ ‘body [2]’Sun H 80 MLD

Motuo Menbamoŋ naŋmorpheme n‘skin’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 0265.07

2.1.3Lepcha4

Lepchaaprefix-mán ‘flesh; meat’Matisoff 87 BP

Lepchamân n.‘meat’Plaisier 07 Lepcha

Lepchamán čúk#4 PTB *g-zuk ‘BODY’ ‘flesh; meat’Matisoff 87 BP

Lepchavi#230 PTB *s-hywəy-t ‘BLOOD’MesorootsPTani *viː ‘BLOOD’PKC *thii ‘BLOOD’PCN *a-(h)jəjʔ ‘BLOOD’PTk *ʃi ‘BLOOD’PNN *C̥-həːy ‘BLOOD’PNN *syi ‘BLOOD’PLB *swəy² ‘BLOOD’PKar *swiᴮ ‘BLOOD’Allofams1a #230 PTB *s-hywəy-t ‘BLOOD’1b #5485 PTB *suy ‘MARROW’◦mân n.‘kin, offspring, relatives (literally flesh and blood)’Plaisier 07 Lepcha

6.1.1Burmish1

Burmese (Written)əprefix-mâñ ‘flesh, game’Benedict 76 WBur

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #54, *m(y/w)an ⪤ *min ‘FLESH / MEAT / ANIMAL’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/54

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

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-54,
  title  = {{*m(y/w)an ⪤ *min 'FLESH / MEAT / ANIMAL'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #54},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/54}
}

*m(y/w)an ⪤ *min