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STEDT #5424

*pwa(n/t)

RUB OFF / GRIND
Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Notes

The alternation between final stop and nasal is attested in Written Burmese.

Chinese 粉 ‘powder’ (Mand. fěn) looks rather similar, but it seems to be a relative newcomer to the Chinese lexicon, and does not appear in GSR.

Reflexes & cognates13 reflexes · 4 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmanpwan ⪤ pwat ‘rub off / grind’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 608

6.1.1Burmish6

Burmese (Written)pwân ‘rubbed off, abraded’Benedict 76 WBur
Burmese (Written)pwat ‘rub, grind, churn’Benedict 76 WBur
Burmese (Written)pwat ‘turner's lathe’Benedict 76 WBur
Burmese (Written)pwat ‘rub, grind, lathe’Benedict 72 STC: 99n283

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish6

Yi (Liangshan)vu⁵⁵ ‘grind’Ma 08 Yi: index
Yi (Liangshan)vu⁵⁵ti²¹morpheme ‘beat (hit); beat up; grind (to bits)’Ma 08 Yi: index
Yi (Xide)vu⁵⁵ v.‘grind (flour)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1527.35
Yi (Xide)vu⁵⁵ v.‘grind / pestle (medicine)’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1747.35
Yi (Xide)vu⁵⁵ ‘grind’Sun H 91 ZMYY: 641.21

7Karenic1

Kayan (Pekon)mà̤morpheme◦pʰwân V‘grind [lit. do-powder]’Manson 10 Kayan

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5424, *pwa(n/t) ‘RUB OFF / GRIND’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5424
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: cf. HPTB p. 519
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-5424,
  title  = {{*pwa(n/t) 'RUB OFF / GRIND'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5424},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5424}
}