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*la(ː)

FEMALE / DAUGHTER
Proto-Tibeto-Burman · provisional

Intermediate reconstructions

Kuki-Chin*laa ‘FEMALE (adolescent stage)’PKC #1018
Central Naga (Ao Group)*la ‘FEMALE, WOMAN’PCN #034
Tangkhulic*la ‘DAUGHTER’DRM#602
Northern Naga/Konyakian*C̥-glaᴮ ‘FEMALE’

Notes

This root occurs in several sub-branches of the NE Indian areal group.

Strangely enough, there is a homophonous root #1624 PTB *la MALE with the antonymous meaning MALE. Cf. Benedict 1981, 1991.

Reflexes & cognates52 reflexes · 9 subgroups

1.2Kuki-Chin1

*Chinlaa ‘FEMALE (adolescent stage)’VanBik 09 PKC: 1018

1.2.1.1Northern Chin2

Tiddimla² ‘adolescent stage of an animal’VanBik 09 PKC: 1018

1.2.1.2Southern Plains Chin2

Cho (Mindat)ngmorpheme-la n‘unmarried woman, a girl’VanBik 09 PKC: 1018
Khumiangmorpheme◦lóo ‘girl old enough to marry (15-20 years old)’VanBik 09 PKC: 1018

1.2.2Central Chin4

Lai (Falam)famorpheme-lǎa ‘female (adolescent stage), unmarried young woman’VanBik 09 PKC: 1018
Lai (Hakha)lǎa ‘female (adolescent stage)’VanBik 09 PKC: 1018
Lushai [Mizo]lá ‘young and mature, full grown (used of female animals, poultry, etc)’VanBik 09 PKC: 1018

1.3.1Central Naga (Ao Group)31

*Ao-la suf.‘FEMININE SEMANTIC GENDER’Bruhn 14 PCN: II.341
Ao (Chungli)-la² suf.‘FEMININE SEMANTIC GENDER’Bruhn 14 PCN: II.341
Ao (Chungli)jamorpheme◦la ‘daughter’Marrison 67 Naga
Ao (Chungli)la◦rsuffix n‘woman’Marrison 67 Naga
Ao (Chungli)taniokmorpheme◦la ‘bride’Marrison 67 Naga
Ao (Chungli)tʃa²morphemela² n.‘daughter’Bruhn 14 SuppCN
Ao (Chungli)u²morphemetʃa³morpheme(la²) n.‘mother, Mom’Bruhn 14 SuppCN
Ao (Mongsen: Longchang)la◦yadimorpheme ‘young woman’Marrison 67 Naga
Ao (Mongsen: Longchang)tüprefix◦timorpheme◦la ‘sister (younger)’Marrison 67 Naga
Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)la◦zatı̀morpheme n.‘unmarried woman, maiden’Coupe 07 Ao
Ao (Mongsen: Mangmetong)tsəmorpheme◦la n.‘horned wild animal, female’Coupe 07 Ao
Lotha Naga-lo¹ suf.‘female suffix (proper names)’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.034
Lotha Nagae¹prefix-lo¹-eʔ³suffix n.‘female, woman / wife’Bruhn 14 PCN: III.034
Lotha NagaEprefix◦lo◦esuffix ‘female’Nienu 90 LotQ: 10.4
Lotha Nagaeprefix◦lo◦esuffix-engalamorpheme ‘married’Marrison 67 Naga
Lotha Nagaēprefix◦ló◦ysuffix ‘female’Acharya 75
Lotha Nagaeprefix◦lu◦esuffix n‘woman’Marrison 67 Naga
Lotha Nagaeprefix◦lu◦esuffix ‘woman’Marrison 67 Naga: 867
Lotha Nagaeprefix◦lu◦esuffix◦roromorpheme ‘girl’Marrison 67 Naga
Lotha Nagala◦ngomorpheme ‘daughter’Marrison 67 Naga
Lotha Nagalo◦romorpheme◦esuffix ‘young woman’Marrison 67 Naga
Lotha Nagaoprefix◦yimorpheme◦lo ‘sister (younger)’Marrison 67 Naga
Sangtamashimorpheme la◦rümorpheme ‘old woman’Kumar 73 Sang
Sangtamashimorpheme◦la◦rümorpheme ‘old woman’Marrison 67 Naga
Sangtamla◦zamorpheme◦rümorpheme ‘young woman’Marrison 67 Naga
Sangtamsharimorpheme◦la ‘spider’Marrison 67 Naga
Sangtamtsumorpheme◦la◦tpümorpheme ‘daughter’Marrison 67 Naga

1.3.2Angami-Pochuri Group3

Meluriawimorpheme◦la ‘hen’Marrison 67 Naga
Meluriamorpheme◦la ‘grandmother’Marrison 67 Naga
Ntenyighamorpheme◦la ‘girl’Marrison 67 Naga

1.7.2Northern Naga/Konyakian1

*Northern NagaC̥prefix-glaᴮ ‘female’French 83

1.7.2.2Konyak-Chang7

Phomla n‘woman’Marrison 67 Naga
Phomnemorpheme la ‘young woman’French 83: 486
Phomnemorpheme la ñəmorpheme ‘girl’French 83: 486
Phomnemorpheme◦la ‘young woman’Marrison 67 Naga
Phomnemorpheme◦la◦nyümorpheme ‘girl’Marrison 67 Naga
Phomnɛ³³morphemelæ⁵⁵ ‘adolescent girl’Burling 98 Phom
Phomtʰe⁵⁵morphemehi³³morphemelæ⁵⁵ ‘young people / youth (cf. 'adolescent boy, girl')’Burling 98 Phom

Cite this entry

STEDT etymon #5493, *la(ː) ‘FEMALE / DAUGHTER’.
Stable link: https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5493
Data: STEDT v1.0 (2017). Accessed: [date].
References: combines PTk, PKC, PCN
BibTeX
@misc{stedt-5493,
  title  = {{*la(ː) 'FEMALE / DAUGHTER'}},
  author = {STEDT},
  year   = {2017},
  note   = {Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (STEDT) v1.0, etymon #5493},
  url    = {https://larc-iu.github.io/stedt/etymon/5493}
}