*mriŋ

SOUND / NOISE / ANIMAL CRY

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Intermediate reconstructions

Kuki-Chin*riŋ-I, rin-II ‘RING / LOUD / SOUND’Meso of #5418? PKC #966

Notes

There is a likely Chinese comparandum, GSR #827a.

Chinese comparandum

鳴 OC *mi̯ĕng, GSR #827a-c; Schuessler 2007:388 *mreŋ; B & S 2011: *m.reŋ; Mand. míng ‘cry (of birds; also, of animals in general)’.
笙 OC *sĕng, GSR #812h ‘reed-organ’; Schuessler 2007:460 *srêŋ; B & S 2011: (*sreŋ); Mand. shēng.
鈴 OC *lieng, GSR #823r ‘small bell’; Schuessler 2007:360-1 *rêŋ; B & S 2011: (*reŋ); Mand. líng.

Reflexes & cognates12 reflexes · 7 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmanmriŋ ‘sound / noise’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 307

1.2Kuki-Chin1

*Chinriŋ-I, rin-II ‘RING / LOUD / SOUND’VanBik 09 PKC: 966

1.2.1.1Northern Chin7

Thadogìn ‘sound’Thirumalai 72: 41

Thadogín ‘sound’Thirumalai 72: 62

Thadogìn ‘noise’Thirumalai 72: 66

Thadogíng-I, gìn-II ‘ring (sound)’VanBik 09 PKC: 966

Tiddimging² > gin³ ‘sound’VanBik 09 PKC: 966

Tiddimging² > gin³ v‘sound’Bhaskararao 96 CDB: 354

Tiddimgiŋ²/gin³ ‘sound’Bhaskararao 94 TCV

1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin1

Cho (Mindat)ngprefix-ging v‘produce a sound, noise’VanBik 09 PKC: 966

1.2.2Central Chin3

Lai (Hakha)rîŋ-I, rǐn-II be v.‘loud’VanBik 09 PKC: 966

Lai (Falam)rǐŋ-I, rìn-II be v.‘loud’VanBik 09 PKC: 966

Lushai [Mizo]ríng-I, rîn-II be v.‘loud, loud-sounding’VanBik 09 PKC: 966

2.3Kiranti1

*Kirantiriŋ ‘word’Opgenort 11 Tilung

6.1.1Burmish1

Burmese (Written)mrañ ‘sound, produce sound’Benedict 76 WBur

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5418, *mriŋ ‘SOUND / NOISE / ANIMAL CRY’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5418

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

References: cf. HPTB p. 307

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-5418,
  title  = {{*mriŋ 'SOUND / NOISE / ANIMAL CRY'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5418},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5418}
}