*s-wap

LUNG

Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Intermediate reconstructions

Tangkhulic*cop ‘LUNG’DRM#725

Connections

Allofams

Notes

The *s- prefix might well be a reduction of #34 PTB *sya-n FLESH / MEAT / GAME ANIMAL, which appears in many words for parts of the body in various Tibeto-Burman languages.

Reflexes & cognates4 reflexes · 5 subgroups

0.1Tibeto-Burman (previously published reconstructions)1

*Tibeto-Burmans-wa-p ‘lung’Matisoff 78 VSTB: 1a

1.3.4Tangkhulic2

*Tangkhuliccop ‘lung’Mortensen 12 Tk: 725

Tusomʔɯmorpheme-cu ‘lung’Mortensen 12 Tk: BodyParts.264

1.7.1.2Garo1

Garokaprefix◦sop ‘lungs’Benedict 72 STC: 239

2.2Newar2

Newarswa̩ ‘lung’Matisoff 87 BP

Newarswạ ‘lung’Matisoff 78 VSTB: 1a

2.3Kiranti1

*BSDTKsop ‘lung’Michailovsky 91 Kr: 114

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5482, *s-wap ‘LUNG’.

Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5482

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

References: cf. HPTB pp. 66, 338

BibTeX

@misc{stedt-5482,
  title  = {{*s-wap 'LUNG'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5482},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5482}
}