*ʔur

MAKE NOISE / HUM / CHAT / BABBLE

Notes

There is a possible connection of this etymon with #1749 PTB *ʔaw VOMIT, the common core of meaning apparently being expulsion of undisciplined effluvia from the mouth.

A more plausible allofam is #2765 PTB *wu HOWL / WHINE / BARK.

Reflexes & cognates13 reflexes · 8 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmanʔur ‘make noise / hum / chat / babble’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 583

1.2.1.1Northern Chin2

Thadoɔ̀ ‘noise’Thirumalai 72: 17

Thadoɔ́ ‘noise’Thirumalai 72: 22

1.3.4Tangkhulic1

Tangkhulhuy ‘hum’Bhat 69 TNV: 91

2.1.2.1Tibetan2

Tibetan (Written)ḥur ‘noise, hum; talk, babbling, chitchat’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 396

Tibetan (Written)ḥur gtoŋmorpheme-bamorpheme v.‘talk, chat’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 396

3.1Tangut1

Tangut [Xixia]xər ‘hum’Li 97 Tangut: 5495

6.1.2.1Northern Loloish1

Yi (Wuding)ɤ¹¹ v.‘chat’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1499.38

6.1.2.2Central Loloish2

Lahu (Lancang)nɑ²¹morphemeu³⁵te³³morphemedɑ²¹morpheme v.‘chat’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1499.43

Lahu (Black)nàʔmorpheme-ú ú vemorpheme ~ nàʔmorpheme-ú temorpheme vemorpheme v.‘chat, converse’Matisoff 03 HPTB: 396

7Karenic4

Karenu̱⁵⁵gă³¹morphemeli³³morpheme v.‘chat’Huang and Dai 92 TBL: 1499.50

Karen (Sgaw/Hinthada)tθa̱⁵⁵#32 PTB *m-sak ‘BREATH(E) / LIFE’PCN *sak ‘BREATH’ ɯ⁵⁵ ‘hum’Dai 89 KarB: 1970.1

Karen (Sgaw/Hinthada)ɯ⁵⁵ ‘hum’Dai 89 KarB: 1970

Karen (Sgaw/Yue)tă³¹#32 PTB *m-sak ‘BREATH(E) / LIFE’PCN *sak ‘BREATH’ u⁵⁵ ‘hum’Dai 89 KarA: 1970

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5452, *ʔur ‘MAKE NOISE / HUM / CHAT / BABBLE’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5452

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

References: cf. HPTB pp. 385, 396, 402

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-5452,
  title  = {{*ʔur 'MAKE NOISE / HUM / CHAT / BABBLE'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5452},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5452}
}